Category:Figures of speech
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Articles relating to figures of speech, words or phrases that entail an intentional deviation from ordinary language use in order to produce a rhetorical effect.[1]
- ^ Mar, Emanuel del (1842). "A Grammar of the English Language ... In a series of familiar lectures, etc". Archived from the original on 2016-05-08. Retrieved 2015-12-02.
Subcategories
This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total.
Pages in category "Figures of speech"
The following 148 pages are in this category, out of 148 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
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- Accismus
- Accumulatio
- Adynaton
- Allegory
- Allusion
- Anacoenosis
- Anacoluthon
- Anadiplosis
- Anaphora (rhetoric)
- Anapodoton
- Anastrophe
- Antanaclasis
- Antanagoge
- Antiphrasis
- Antithesis
- Antonomasia
- Apheresis (linguistics)
- Aphorismus
- Apo koinou construction
- Apocope
- Apophasis
- Aporia
- Aposiopesis
- Apostrophe (figure of speech)
- Asyndeton
- Auxesis (figure of speech)