Flowers (figures) of Rhetoric

Rhetorical Figures

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-A-

abating
abbaser
abecedarian
abcisio
ablatio
abode, figure of
abominatio
abuse
abusio
abusion
acoloutha
accismus
accumulatio
accusatio adversa
accusatio
acervatio
acrostic
acyrologia
acyron
adage
adagium
addubitatio
adhortatio
adianoeta
adjectio
adjournment
adjudicatio
adjunct
adjunctio
admonitio
adnexio
adnominatio
adynata
adynaton
aeschrologia
aetiologia
affirmatio
affirmation
aganactesis
agnominatio
agnomination
aischrologia
allegory
alleotheta
alliteration
amara irrisio
ambage, figure of
ambiguitas
ambiguous
amphibologia
ampliatio
anacephalaeosis
anacoenosis
anacoloutha
anacoluthon
anadiplosis
anamnesis
anangeon
anaphora
anapodoton
anastrophe
anemographia
anesis
antanaclasis
antanagoge
antenantiosis
anthimeria
anthropopatheia
anthypophora
anticategoria
anticipation
antilogy
antimetabole
antimetathesis
antipersonification
antiphrasis
antiprosopopoeia
antiptosis
antirrhesis
antisagoge
antistasis
antisthecon
antistrophe
antithesis
antitheton
antonomasia
apagoresis
aphaeresis
aphorismus
apocarteresis
apocope
apodioxis
apodixis
apologue
apophasis
apoplanesis
aporia
aposiopesis
apostrophe
apothegm
apparent refusal
appositio
apposition
ara
articulus
aschematismus
aschematiston
asphalia
assonance
assumptio
assumption
avancer, the
asteismus
astrothesia
asyndeton
auxesis
aversio

-B-

-C-

-D-

deesis
dehortatio
dendrographia
deprecatio
descriptio
diacope
diaeresis
dialogismus
dialysis
dialyton
dianoea
diaphora
diaporesis
diaskeue
diastole
diasyrmus
diazeugma
dicaeologia
digressio
dilemma
dirimens copulatio
distinctio
distributio
doubtfull, the

-E-

-F-

frequentatio

-G-

geographia
gnome
graecismus

-H-

-I-

-L-

litotes

-M-

macrologia
martyria
maxim
medela
meiosis
membrum
mempsis
merismus
mesarchia
mesodiplosis
mesozeugma
metabasis
metalepsis
metallage
metaphor
metaplasm
metastasis
metathesis
metonymy
mimesis
mycterismus

-N-

noema

-O-

-P-

paenismus
palilogia
parabola
paradiastole
paradiegesis
paradigma
paradox
paraenesis
paragoge
paralipsis
parallelism
paramythia
parathesis
parecbasis
paregmenon
parelcon
parembole
parenthesis
pareuresis
paroemia
paroemion
paromoiosis
paromologia
paronomasia
parrhesia
pathopoeia
perclusio
periergia
period
periphrasis
perissologia
peristasis
permutatio
personification
philophronesis
pleonasm
ploce
polyptoton
polysyndeton
pragmatographia
procatalepsis
proclees
prodiorthosis
proecthesis
prolepsis
prosapodosis
proslepsis
prosonomasia
prosopographia
prosopopoeia
prosphonesis
protherapeia
prothesis
protrope
proverb
prozeugma
pysma

-R-

-S-

-T-

-V-

verborum bombus

-Z-

zeugma

Gideon O. Burton
Brigham Young Univ.
Please cite
"Silva Rhetoricae"
rhetoric.byu.edu

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page update: Feb. 26, 2007