metonymy
substituting a part to represent a whole
synchesis
ABAB word pattern
syncopation
shortening a word to fit meter
anachronism
a word that is out of place due to a different time period
anastrophe
reversal of word order in a prepositional phrase
anaphora
repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis
ellipsis
omission of a verb
onomatopoeia
words that create the sound the word makes
alliteration
repetition of initial consonant sounds
vergilian word picture
words organized to form a picture of the object they are describing
hendiadys
two nouns used in repetition for the same task
prolepsis
talking about a future event as if it has already happened
chiasmus
ABBA word pattern
apostrophe
calling out to a person who is absent or dead
pleonasm
unneccessary adition of synonymic words for meter
tricolon crescens
three things presented with increasingly longer descriptions
hyperbole
an exaggeration
supine
fourth principle part translated as an infinitive
aposiopesis
a trailing off
litotes
an understatement using a double negative
ecphrasis
describing a pictoral representation
tmesis
breaking apart a word or phrase with another word
enjambment
placing similar words in the next line
asyndeton
omission of conjunctions
atonomasia
a nickname
zeugma
unrelated words used together
