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Figures of Speech
What is Figure of Speech?
20 Principal Figures of Speech
Alliteration
Anastrophe
Anaphora
Antithesis
Antonomasia
Catachresis
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Irony
Litotes
Metaphor
Metonymy
Oxymoron
Paradox
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Paronomasia
Polyptoton
Simile
Zeugma
Progymnasmata
What is Progymnasmata?
The 14 Progymnasmata Exercises
Fable
Narrative
Chreia
Maxim
Refutation
Confirmation
Common–place
Encomium
Vituperation (Invective)
Synkrisis (Comparison)
Impersonation (Ethopoeia)
Description (Ekphrasis)
Thesis
Introduction Of A Law
Poetry
Enjambment
Imagery
Rhythm
Half Rhyme
Internal Rhyme
Classical Rhetoric
Rhetoric
Deliberative Rhetoric
Epideictic Rhetoric
Judicial Rhetoric
Discourse
Characteristics of
Rhetorical Discourse
Five Canons of Rhetoric
Invention
Arrangement
Style
Memory
Delivery
Declamation
Progymnasmata
Common-place
Other Fields of Study
Parts of Speech
Figures of Speech
Progymnasmata
Economics
Government
Public Administration
Business Communication
Organizational Communication
Organizational Design
Organizational Conflict
Interpersonal Skills
Communication Skill
Listening Skill
Perception Skill
Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Social Psychology
Nonverbal Communication
Glossary of Trope
Abominatio
Accismus
Acyrologia
Acyron
Adhortatio
Adianoeta
Aetiologia
Allegory
Allusion
Ambiguity
Amplification
Anacoenosis
Analogy
Anamnesis
Anecdote
Anemographia
Antanagoge
Anthropomor-
phism
Anthropopatheia
Anthypomosia
Anthypophora
Anticategoria
Antilogy
Antiparastasis
Antiphrasis
Antiprosopo-
poeia
Antisagoge
Antistasis
Antisthecon
Antistrophe
Antonomasia
Aphæresis
Aphorism
Apocalypse
Apocarteresis
Apocope
Apodioxis
Apodixis
Apologia
Apologue
Apomnemonysis
Apophasis
Apoplanesis
Aporia
Apostrophe
Archaism
Asphalia
Assumptio
Asteismus
Astrothesia
Barbarism
Bathos
Bdelygmia
Benedictio
Bomphiologia
Burlesque Metaphor
Catachresis
Cataphasis
Cataplexis
Categoria
Characterismus
Charientismus
Chleuasmos
Chorographia
Chronographia
Circumlocution
Classification
Cliché
Commiseratio
Communicatio
Comparison
Comprobatio
Conceit
Concessio
Correctio
Deesis
Dehortatio
Dendrographia
Denominatio
Deprecatio
Descriptio
Dialoephe
Dialogismus
Dianoea
Diaporesis
Diæresis
Diaskeue
Diastole
Diasyrmus
Diatyposis
Dicaeologia
Dilemma
Dirimens Copulatio
Distinctio
Distributio
Double Negative
Dubitatio
Dysphemism
Ecphonesis
Ecthlipsis
Effictio
Ekphrasis
Elision
Enargia
Encomium
Energia
Enigma
Ennoia
Epanorthosis
Epenthesis
Epicrisis
Epiphora
Epiplexis
Episynaloephe
Epithet
Epithymonex-
phrasos
Epitrope
Erotema
Erotesis
Ethopoeia
Eucharistia
Euche
Eulogia
Euphemism
Eustathia
Excitatio
Exclamatio
Excursus
Execratio
Exemplum
Exergasia
Exouthenismos
Exuscitatio
Fable
Geographia
Gnome
Grandiloquence
Homograph
Homonym
Homophone
Horismus
Humour
Hydrographia
Hymos
Hyperbole
Hypocatastasis
Hypocrisis
Hypophora
Hypotyposis
Icon
Idiom
Innuendo
Invective
Irony
Kenning
Litotes
Malapropism
Martyria
Meiosis
Merism
Metalepsis
Metaphor
Metaplasm
Metastasis
Metathesis
Metonymy
Mimesis
Mycterismus
Neologism
Non Sequitur
Occultatio
Occupatio
Ominatio
Onedismus
Onomatopoeia
Optatio
Parable
Paradiastole
Paradox
Paraenesis
Paragoge
Paralipsis
Paramologia
Paramythia
Parody
Paronomasia
Pathetic Fallacy
Pathopoeia
Periphrasis
Peristasis
Peristrophe
Personification
Philophronesis
Ploce
Polyptoton
Praeteritio
Pragmatographia
Procatalepsis
Proecthesis
Prolepsis
Proslepsis
Prosopographia
Prosopopoeia
Prothesis
Protrope
Proverb
Pun
Purgatio
Pysma
Ratiocinatio
Rhetorical Question
Sarcasm
Satire
Schematismus
Sententia
Sermocinatio
Significatio
Simile
Snowclone
Spoonerism
Subjectio
Syllepsis
Synaeresis
Synaesthesia
Synaloepha
Syncatabasis
Synchoresis
Syncope
Synecdoche
Syngnome
Synonymia
Systole
Tapinosis
Tasis
Tautology
Thaumasmus
Topographia
Topothesia
Truism
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