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| The term is applied in literature to the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another. |
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| the narrative device of omitting a portion of the sequence of events |
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| Post Hoc ergo Propter Hoc |
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| the logical fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation. |
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| It is a comment that, because of its apparent lack of meaning relative to what it follows, seems absurd to the point of being humorous or confusing. |
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| introduces irrelevant personal premisses about his opponent. |
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| a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole |
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| is the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy") |
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| Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes. Examples. The pen is mightier than the sword. |
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| antithesis can be used to describe a character who presents the exact opposite as to personality type or moral outlook to another character in a particular piece of literature. |
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| understatement is employed for rhetorical effect when an idea is expressed by a denial of its opposite, principally via double negatives. |
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| A kind of ellipsis in which one word (usually a verb) is understood differently in relation to two or more other words. |
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| Emission of one or more words meant to be understood by the reader. |
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