Summary of Classification

1. Figures Involving Omission
   • Affecting words
   • Affecting the sense
2. Figures Involving Addition
3. Affecting words
4. Affecting the sense, by way of
   • Repetition
   • Amplification
   • Description
   • Conclusion
   • Interposition
   • Reasoning

• Figures Involving Change
  • Affecting the meaning and usage of words
  • Affecting the order and arrangement of words
  • Affecting the application of words, as to
    • Sense
    • Persons
    • Subject-matter
    • Time
    • Feeling
    • Reasoning

Analytical Table of Contents

Figures Involving Omission

1. AFFECTING WORDS
   • ELLIPSIS
   • ZEUGMA: or, Unequal Yoke.
     1. PROTOZEUGMA: or, Ante-yoke (INJUNCTUM)
     2. MESOZEUGMA: or, Middle-yoke (CONJUNCTUM)
     3. HYPOZEUGMA: or, End-yoke
     4. SYNEZEUGMENON: or, Connected-yoke (ADJUNCTUM)
   • ASYNDETON: or, No-Ands.
   • APHAERESIS: or, Front-Cut.
   • APOCOPE: or, End-Cut.
2. AFFECTING THE SENSE.
   • APOSIOPESIS: or, Sudden Silence
   • MEIOSIS: or, a Be-littleing.
   • TAPEINOSIS: or, Demeaning.
   • CATABASIS
   • SYLLOGISMUS: or, Omission of the Conclusion
   • ENTHYMEMA: or, Omission of the Premiss

Figures Involving Addition

1. Affecting Words
   1. Repetition of Letters and Syllables
      • HOMOEOPROPHERON: or Alliteration.
      • HOMOEOTELEUTON: or, Like Endings.
      • HOMOEOPTOTON: or, Like Inflections.
      • PAROMOEOSIS: or, Like-Sounding Inflections.
      • ACROSTICHION: or, Acrostic.
   2. The Repetition of the Same Word
      • EPIZEUXIS: or, Duplication.
      • ANAPHORA: or, Like-Sentence Beginnings.
      • EPANALEPSIS: or, Resumption.
      • POLYSYNDETON: or, Many-Ands.
      • PARADIASTOLE: Neithers and Nors.
      • EPISTROPHE: or, Like Sentence-Endings.
      • EPIPHOZA: or, Epistrophe in Argument
      • EPANADIPLOSIS: or, Encircling.
      • EPADIPLOSIS: or, Repeated Epanadiplosis
      • ANADIPLOSIS: or, Like Sentence-Endings and Beginnings.
      • CLIMAX: or, Gradation.
      • MESARCHIA: or, Beginning and Middle Repetition.
      • MESODIPLOSIS: or, Middle Repetition.
      • MESOTELEUTON: or, Middle and End Repetition.
      • REPETITIO: or, Repetition.
      • POLYPTOTON: or, Many Inflections.
      • ANTANACLASIS: or, Word-Clashing, and
      • PLOCE: or, Word-Folding.
      • SYNOECEIOSIS: or, Cohabitation.
      • SYLLEPSIS: or, Combination.
   3. The Repetition of Different Words
      1. In a similar order (but same sense).
         • SYMPLOCE: or, Intertwining.
      2. In a different order (but same sense).
         • EPANADOS: or, Inversion.
         • ANTIMETABOLE: or Counter-change.
      3. Similar in sound, but different in sense.
         • PAREGMENON: or, Derivation.
         • PARANOMASIA: or Rhyming-Words.
         • PARACHESIS: or, Foreign Paronomasia.
      4. Different in sound, but similar in sense
         • SYNONYMIA: or, Synonymous Words.
         • REPEATED NEGATION: or, Many Noes.
   4. The Repetition of Sentences and Phrases
      • CYCLOIDES: or, Circular Repetition.
      • AMOEBAEON: or, Refrain.
      • COENOTES: or, Combines Repetition.
      • EPIBOLE: or, Overlaid Repetition.
      • SYNANTESIS: or, Introverted Repetition.
   5. The Repetition of Subjects
      • PARALELLISM: or, Parallel Lines.
      • CORRESPONDENCE.
2. AFFECTING THE SENSE (Figures of Rhetoric)
   1. REPETITIO
      • PROSAPODOSIS: or, Detailing.
      • EPIDIEGESIS: or, Re-Statement.
      • EPEXEGESIS: or, Fuller Explaining.
      • EXERGASIA: or, Working-Out.
      • EPIMONE: or, Lingering,
      • HERMENEIA: or, Interpretation.
      • BATTALOGIA: or, Vain Repetition.
   2. AMPLIFICATIO
      • PLEONASM: or, Redundancy.
      • PERIPHRASIS: or, Circulocution.
      • HYPERBOLE: or, Exaggeration.
      • ANABASIS: or, Gradual Ascent
      • CATABASIS: or, Gradual Descent.
      • MERISMOS: or, Distribution.
      • SYNATHOESMOS: or, Enumeration.
      • EPITROCHASMOS: or, Summarising.
      • DIEXODOS: or, Expansion.
      • EPITHETON: or, Epithet.
      • SYNTHETON: or, Combination.
      • HORISMOS: or, Definition.
   3. DESCRIPTIO
      • HYPOTYPOSIS: or, Word-Picture.
      • PROSOPOGRAPHIA: or, Description of Persons
      • EFFICTIO: or, Word-Portrait
      • CHARACTERISMOS: or, Description of Character
      • ETHOPOEIA: or, Description of Manners
      • PATHOPOEIA: or, Description of Feelings
      • MIMESIS: or, Description of Sayings
      • PRAGMATOGRAPHIA: or, Description of Actions
      • CHRONOGRAPHIA: or, Description of Time
      • PERISTASIS: or, Description of Circumstances
      • PROTIMESIS: or, Description of Order
   4. CONCLUSIO
      • EPICRISIS: or, Judgment.
      • EPITASIS: or, Amplification.
      • ANESIS: or, Abating.
      • EPIPHONEMA: or, Exclamation.
      • PROECTHESIS: or, Justification.
      • EPITHERAPEIA: or, Qualification.
      • EXEMPLUM: or, Example.
      • SYMPERASMA: or, Concluding Summary.
   5. INTERPOSITIO
      • PARENTHESIS: Parenthesis.
      • EPITRECHON: or, Running Along.
      • CATAPLOCE: or, Sudden Exclamation.
      • PAREMBOLE: or, Insertion.
      • INTERJECTIO: or, Interjection.
      • EJACULATIO: or, Ejaculation.
      • HYPOTIMESIS: or, Under-Estimating.
      • ANAERESIS: or, Detraction.
   6. RATIOCINATIO
      • PARADIEGESIS: or, A Bye-Leading.
      • SUSTENTATIO: or, Suspense.
      • PARALEIPSIS: or, A Passing-By.
      • PROSLEPSIS: or, Assumption.
      • APOPHASIS: or, Insinuation.
      • CATAPHASIS: or, Affirmation.
      • ASTEISMOS: or, Politeness.

Figures Involving Change

1. AFFECTING THE MEANING OF WORDS
   • ENALLAGE: or, Exchange.
   • ANTEMEREIA: or, Exchange of Parts of Speech
   • ANTIPTOSIS: or, Exchange of Cases.
   • HETEROSIS: or, Exchange of Accident
   • HYPALLAGE: or, Interchange.
   • METONYMY: or, Change of Noun.
   • METALEPSIS: or, Double Metonymy.
   • SYNECDOCHE: or, Transfer.
   • HENDIADYS: or, Two for One.
   • HENDIATRIS: or, Three for One.
   • CATACHRESIS: or, Incongruity.
   • METALLAGE: or, A Changing Over.
   • ANTONOMASIA: or, Name-Change.
   • EUPHEMISMIS: or, Euphemy.
   • APLIATIO: or, Adjournment
   • ANTIPHRASIS: or, Permutation
2. AFFECTING THE ARRANGEMENT AND ORDER OF WORDS
   1. SEPARATE WORDS
      • HYPERBATON: or, Transposition.
      • ANASTROPHE: or, Arraignment.
      • SYLLEPSIS: or, Change in Concord.
      • TIMESIS: or, Mid-Cut.
   2. SENTENCES AND PHRASES
      • HYSTERON-PROTERON: or, The Last, First.
      • HYSTEROLOGIA: or, The First, Last.
      • HYSTERESIS: or, Subsequent Narration.
      • SIMULTANEUM: or, Insertion.
      • ANTITHESIS: or, Contrast.
      • ENANTIOSIS: or, Contraries.
      • ANACOLUTHON: or, Non-sequence.
3. AFFECTING THE APPLICATION OF WORDS
   1. As to Sense
      • SIMILE: or, Resemblance.
      • SYNCRISIS: or, Repeated Simile.
      • METAPHOR: or, Representation.
      • HYPOCATASTASIS: or, Implication.
      • ALLEGORY: or, Continued Metaphor and Hypocatastasis.
      • PARABOLA: or, Parable
      • APOLOGUE: or, Fable
      • PAROEMIA: or, Proverb.
      • TYPE.
      • SYMBOL.
      • AENIGMA: or, Enigma
      • POLYONYMIA: or, Many Names.
      • GNOME: or, Quotation.
        • CHREIA
        • NOEMA
        • ACCOMODATIO
      • AMPHIBIOLOGIA: or, Double Meaning.
      • EIRONEIA: or, Irony.
        • ANTIPHRASIS,
        • PERMUTATIO
        • SARCASMOS
      • OXYMORON: or, Wise-folly
      • IDIOMA: or, Idiom.
   2. AS TO PERSONS
      • PROSOPOPOEIA: or, Personification.
      • ANTIPROSOPOPOEIA: or, Anti-Personification
      • ANTHROPOPATHEIA: or, Condescension
      • ANTIMETATHESIS: or, Dialogue.
      • ASSOCIATION: or, Inclusion.
      • APOSTROPHE.
      • PARECBASIS: or, Digression.
   3. AS TO SUBJECT-MATTER
      • METABASIS: or, Transition.
      • EPANORTHOSIS: or, Correction.
      • AMPHIDIORTHOSIS: or, Double Correction.
      • ATACHORESIS: or, Regression.
   4. AS TO TIME
      • PROLEPSIS (AMPLIATIO): or, Anticipation.
   5. AS TO FEELING
      • PATHOPOEIA: or, Pathos.
      • ATEISMOS: or, Urbanity.
      • ANAMNESIS: or, Recalling.
      • BENEDICTIO: or, Blessing.
      • EUCHE: or, Prayer.
      • PARAENETICON, or, Ehortation.
      • OEONISMOS: or, Wishing.
      • THAUMASMOS: or, Wondering.
      • PAEANISMOS: or, Exultation.
      • ASTERISMOS: or, Indicating.
      • ECPHONESIS: or, Exclamation.
      • APORIA: or, Doubt.
      • EPITIMESIS: or, Reprimand.
      • ELEUTHERIA: or, Candour.
      • AGANACTESIS: or, Indignation.
      • APOSIOXIS: or, Detestation.
      • DEPRECATIO: or, Deprecation.
      • DIASYRMOS: or, Raillery.
      • CATAPLEXIS: or, Menace.
      • EXOUTHENISMOS: or, Contempt.
      • MALEDICTO: or, Imprecation.
      • DEASIS: or, Adjuration.
      • CHLEUASMOS: or, Mocking.
   6. AS TO ARGUMENTATION
      • EROTESIS: or Interrogating.
      • DIALOGISMOS: or, Dialogue.
      • DIANOEA: or, an Animated Dialogue.
      • AFFIRMATIO: or, Affirmation.
      • NEGATIO: or, Negation.
      • ACCISMUS: Apparent Refusal
      • AETIOLOGIA: or, Cause Shown.
      • ANTEISAGOSE: or, Counter-Question.
      • ANISTROPHE: or Retort.
      • ANTICATEGORIA: or, Tu Quoque.
      • METASTASIS: or, Counter-Blame.
      • ANACOENOSIS: or, Common Cause.
      • SYNCHORESIS: or, Concession.
      • EPITROPE: or, Admission.
      • PAROMOLOGIA: or, Confession.
      • PROTHERAPEIA: or, Conciliation.
      • PRODIORTHOSIS: or, Warning.
      • POLINODIA: or, Retracting.
      • PROLEPSIS (OCCUPATIO): or, Anticipation.