Figures of Speech and Literary Devices


 * accismus
 * adage
 * agnomination
 * allegory
 * alliteration
 * allocution
 * allusion
 * ambages
 * ambiguity
 * amplification
 * ana
 * anacouthon
 * anadiplosis
 * anagram
 * analogy
 * anaphora
 * anastrophe
 * anathema
 * anecdote
 * anonym
 * antiphrasis
 * antithesis
 * antonomasia
 * aphorism
 * apophasis
 * aposiopesis
 * apostrophe
 * apothegm
 * appellative
 * ara
 * arachaism
 * argumentation
 * assonance
 * asyndeton
 * atticism
 * aureate
 * axiom
 * banality
 * bathos
 * bombast
 * bon mot
 * brachylogy
 * brief
 * brocard
 * bromide
 * buzzword
 * byword
 * cacology
 * cadence
 * cant
 * catchword
 * cathachresis
 * chestnut
 * chiasmus
 * circumambages
 * circumlocution
 * clich
 * cognomen
 * conceit
 * concinnity
 * connotation
 * conumdrum
 * curse
 * dead metaphor
 * debate
 * declamation
 * denotation
 * description
 * diatribe
 * diction
 * digression
 * discourse
 * dithryamb
 * double entendre
 * double-talk
 * dysphemism
 * echoism
 * effect
 * elaboration
 * ellipsis
 * elliptical
 * elocution
 * eloquence
 * emphasis
 * enallage
 * endearment
 * epigram
 * epilogue
 * epistrophe
 * epithet
 * equivocation
 * equivoque
 * eulogy
 * euphemism
 * euphu8rism
 * exclamation
 * excursus
 * exordium
 * expatiation
 * expletive
 * exposition
 * expression
 * figurative language
 * figure of speech
 * flourish
 * flowery
 * forensics
 * glossolalia
 * grandiloquence
 * harangue
 * hendiadys
 * homily
 * hypallage
 * hyperbaton
 * hyperbole
 * hypocorism
 * hypothesis
 * hysteron proteron
 * illeism
 * implication
 * imprecation
 * innuendo
 * invective
 * inversion
 * invocation
 * Irish bull
 * irony
 * lingo
 * litany
 * litotes
 * locution
 * logodaedaly
 * malapropism
 * malediction
 * maxim
 * meiosis
 * metaphor
 * metonymy
 * mot
 * motto
 * mouthful
 * narration
 * nonsense
 * nutshell
 * oath
 * obiter dictum
 * onomatomania
 * onomatopoeia
 * oration
 * ornate
 * oxymoron
 * palindrome
 * panegyric
 * pangram
 * parable
 * paradox
 * paralipsis
 * paraphrase
 * parenthesis
 * paronomasia
 * password
 * pathetic fallacy
 * pedantry
 * periphrasis
 * peroration
 * persiflage
 * personaification
 * phatic
 * Philippic
 * phraseology
 * platitude
 * play oj words
 * pleonasm
 * polemic
 * polysyndeton
 * preterition
 * profanity
 * prolepsis
 * prologue
 * prosopopoeia
 * proverb
 * pun
 * punch line
 * quibble
 * quip
 * rebuttal
 * redundancy
 * repartee
 * repetition
 * retort
 * rhetoric
 * rhetorical figurerhetorical question
 * riposte
 * sarcasm
 * saw
 * saying
 * scheme
 * Secratic method
 * sesquipedalianism
 * shibboleth
 * shop talk
 * simile
 * slogan
 * slur
 * solecism
 * speaking in tongues
 * speech
 * spoonerism
 * syllepsis
 * symploce
 * synecdoche
 * synthesis
 * thesis
 * trenody
 * trope
 * truism
 * understatement
 * verbigeration
 * vitriol
 * watchword
 * wellerism
 * wordplay
 * zeugma