Types of figures of speech
Figures amplification |
Gradation Hyperbole |
Figures analogy |
Allegory comparison Metaphor Personification Prosopopée |
Figures mitigation |
Euphemism Litote |
Figures construction |
Anacoluthon Anastrophe Asyndeton Ellipse epiphonema oratory Query Parallelism Zeugma |
Figures of diction or tone |
Alliteration Assonance epenthesis Homéotéleute paronomasia |
Figures insistence |
Anaphora enumeration Parallelism Repetition |
Opposition figures |
Antiphrasis Antithesis chiasmus Oxymore |
Figures substitution |
Metonymy periphrasis Synecdoche Read more on http://www.etudes-litteraires.com/figures-de-style/index-figures.php |
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