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| parallel structure in inverted/mirror form-two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a-b-a-b) but in inverted order (a-b-b-a); form shape of the Greek letter chi |
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| The deliberate omission of a word or words implied by the context and by the parallel structure. |
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| The general name give to literary techniques that invovle diffrences between appearance and reality, exception and result, or meaning and intention. |
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| The physical arrangement of words in a sentance. |
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| A refrence to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. |
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| The use of wrds that imitate sounds |
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| A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. |
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| A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it |
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| The repetition of a grammatical structure |
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| A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an inanimate object or an absent person or a personified quality. |
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| A form of metaphor in which a part of someting is used to stand for the whole thing. |
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| one of hte devices of repetition, in which the same expression is repeated for effect at the beginning of two or more lines,clauses,or sentances. |
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| A device where being indirect replaces directness to a void embarrassment or unpleasantness. |
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| A speech by one character who is on statge alone. which is uded to show the charachter's thoughts. |
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| Word choice. To discuss a writer's diciton is to consider the vocabulary used, the approprateness of the words, and the vividness of the language. |
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| A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. |
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| A question used for persuasion, to which the answer is obvious and usually only one answer is possible. A rhetorical question is not intended to induce a reply. |
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| An explanation based upon a comparioson that explains or describes one subject by pointing out its similarities to another subject, |
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| An expression used in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing. A colloquialism lies between the upper level of dignified, formal, academic,or "literay" language, and the lower level of slang |
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| The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur. |
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| The concurrent response of two or more of the senses to the stimulation of one. |
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| A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something that struts and frets his hour upon the stage. |
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| An assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it. |
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| A two-word figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas. |
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| A play on words based on diffrent meanings of words that sound alike. |
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| A figure of speech in which like, as. or than is used to make a comparison betwen two basically unlike subjects. |
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| The purposeful repetition of initial consonant sounds. |
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| A direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast. |
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| A statement of some general principle,expressed memorably by condensing much wisdom into few words. |
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| the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion. |
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| a traditional saying expressing a common experience or observation; proverb. |
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| needless repetition of an idea, |
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