Literary Figures
Unnecessary Information
- Epithet: Adding an unnecessary adjective to express a granted status.
- Pleonasm: Using redundant words to convey a message.
Accumulation of Information
- Periphrasis: Expressing an idea indirectly rather than using the precise term.
- Enumeration: Listing various elements comprising objects or qualities.
- Gradation: Arranging items in ascending or descending order of intensity.
Suspension of Information
- Asyndeton: Omission of syntactic connectives, especially conjunctions.
- Ellipsis: Omission of a word that is understood through context.
Repetition of Elements
- Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds.
- Anaphora: Repeating the same word at the beginning of various phrases or verses.
- Polysyndeton: Repeating coordinating conjunctions (e.g., and, or).
- Parallelism: Repetition of syntactic structures.
Expressive and Interrogative Intonation
- Rhetorical Question: A question for which no response is expected.
- Apostrophe: A passionate address by the author to people, abstract beings, or elements of nature.
- Exclamation: An admiring tone used to express feelings or emotions.
Word Order
- Hyperbaton: Alteration or inversion of the logical order of words.
- Enjambment: Interruption of a syntactic structure to coincide with the end of a verse.
Games with Logic
- Pun: Matching the same syllables in different grammatical positions.
- Paronomasia: Using words with similar spelling and pronunciation but different meanings.
- Irony: Suggesting the opposite of what is literally said.
- Personification: Attribution of human qualities to animals or objects.
- Animalization: Allocation of animal features to human characteristics.
- Antithesis: Expressive contrast of two words with opposite meanings.
- Hyperbole: Exaggeration of qualities or actions.
Description of Characters
- Prosopography: Description of physical features.
- Ethopoeia: Description of psychological traits.
- Portrait: Description of both physical and psychological traits.
Naming Imaginary Tropes
- Metaphor: Describing a reality using the name of another due to perceived similarity.
- Comparison: Highlighting the similarity between two realities.
- Allegory: Expressing information using a series of metaphors.
