Rhetorical device

Here rhetorical devices ( rhetorical figures and tropes ) are listed. For a definition, see rhetorical device.

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" Former future" ( Odon von Horvath: Youth without God )

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2) Slight change of the word, by this an additional meaning is assigned (see also transposed letters, paronomasia, polysemy, Schüttelreim )

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Accumulatio Hendiadys Adynaton Alliteration Ennius Allusion Anadiplosis Repetition (rhetorical device) Verse (poetry) Anaphora (rhetoric) Epistrophe Kyklos Anacoluthon Christian Morgenstern Anastrophe Inversion (linguistics) Foreshadowing Gustav Schwab Antilabe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Irony Antithesis Antonomasia Heracles Apokoinu construction Aposiopesis Apostrophe (figure of speech) Archaism Assonance Ernst Jandl Conjunction Polysyndeton Bathos Zeugma Word play Neologism Chiasmus Chreia Synesis Contradictio in adjecto Dysphemism Apostrophe Emphasis Friedrich Schiller Hypallage Enjambment Epanalepsis Odysseus Eos Figura etymologica Simile Horace Heinz Erhardt Hyperbaton Hyperbole Hysteron proteron Mephistopheles Tempora Invocation Sarcasm Metaphor Climax (figure of speech) Litotes Double negative Jean Paul Palindrome Titan Socrates Paraphrase Circumlocution Pars pro toto totum pro parte Punch line Wilhelm Busch Polyptoton homo homini lupus Procatalepsis Data redundancy Rhetorical question Sententiae William Tell (play) Grammatical person Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe) Zeugma#Syllepsis Colon (rhetoric) Totemism Veni vidi vici Proof by contradiction
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