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