Rhetorical Devices
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Phonic Resources
Alliteration
Repetition of phonemes or syllables in several words.
Paronomasias
Slight phonetic changes involved.
Diafora
Disparate meanings: repetition of a word with different meanings.
Morphosyntactic Resources
Anaphora
Repetition of one or more words at the beginning of successive verses or statements.
Epiphora
Repetition of a word at the end of several verses.
Anadiplosis
Repeating the last element of a group of words at the beginning of the next group.
Epanadiplosis
Repetition of a word at the beginning and end of a verse or sentence.
Polysyndeton
Repetition of conjunctions which does not require syntax.
Poliptoton
Repeating the same word with different grammatical accidents.
Enumeration
Sequence of words with the same syntactic function.
Parallelism
Identical provision in two or more syntactic units or metric.
Hyperbaton
Alteration of the normal order of prayer. Example: The room in the dark corner, its owner may have forgotten, silent and covered with dust, was visible on the harp.
Chiasmus
Crossover or symmetrical arrangement of the elements of two sets of words.
Asyndeton
Suppression of links between two noncoordinating or more members who should carry them.
Ellipsis
Deletion of any element without altering the understanding.
Semantic Resources
Hyperbole
Exaggeration unlikely. Example: Both groups pain in my side hurt so much that it hurts to breathe.
Pleonasm
Use of superfluous or redundant words.
Antithesis
Opposition of meanings of two words in one sentence.
Oxymoron
Juxtaposition of two terms in the same phrase.
Paradox
Union of two apparently contradictory terms.
Litotes
Denial of what we want to say.
Irony
Statement of an idea through the expression of the opposite.
Personification
Attributing human qualities to animals or inanimate qualities of living beings.
Apostrophe
Appeal to a being, animate or inanimate, present or absent.
Metaphor
Identification of two objects, real and image, in the same sentence.
Allegory
A succession of metaphors.
Comparison
Value, via a link, of a real object and an object image.
Periphrasis
Expression that detours and shuns the direct term.
Metonymy
Description of an object with the name of another with which it correlates.
Synesthesia
Crossing two sensory images coming from different directions.
Verb Tenses
Simple Tenses (Indicative)
Present
Preterite Imperfect
Preterite Perfect
Imperfect Future
Conditional
Subjunctive
Present