-A-
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
battologia
bdelygmia
benedictio
bomphiologia
brachiepia
brachylogia
broad floute, the
cacemphaton
cacophonia
cacosyntheton
cacozelia
casus pro casu
catachresis
catacosmesis
cataphasis
cataplexis
categoria
cause shown
change of name
characterismus
charientismus
chiasmus
chorographia
chreia
chronographia
circumlocutio
civille jest, the
clause
climax
coenotes
colon
combined repetition
comma
common cause
commoratio
communicatio
commutatio
comparatio
compensatio
complexio
compositum ex contrariis
comprobatio
conceit
concessio
conciliatio
conclusio
condescensio
condescension
conduplicatio
congeries
conjunctio
consonance
contencion
contentio
continued metaphor
contractio
contrarium
contrast
conversio
correctio
counterchange, the
counterfait in personation
counterfait place
counterfeit time, the
counter turne
cutted comma, the
cutting from the end
ecphrasis
ecthlipsis
effictio
elenchus
ellipsis
emphasis
enallage
enantiosis
enargia
encomium
energia
enigma
ennoia
enthymeme
enumeratio
epanalepsis
epanodos
epanorthosis
epenthesis
epergesis
epexegesis
epicrisis
epilogus
epimone
epiphonema
epiplexis
epistrophe
epitasis
epitheton
episynaloephe
epitrochasmus
epitrope
epizeugma
epizeuxis
erotema
ethopoeia
eucharistia
euche
eulogia
euphemismus
eustathia
eutrepismus
example
excitatio
exclamatio
excursus
exergasia
exouthenismos
expeditio
expolitio
exuscitatio
gnome
graecismus
indignatio
inopinaturm
insinuatio
interrogatio
inter se pugnantia
intimation
irony
isocolon
martyria
maxim
medela
meiosis
membrum
mempsis
merismus
mesarchia
mesodiplosis
mesozeugma
metabasis
metalepsis
metallage
metaphor
metaplasm
metastasis
metathesis
metonymy
mimesis
mycterismus
noema
ominatio
onedismus
onomatopoeia
optatio
orcos
oxymoron
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
repetitio
repotia
restrictio
rhetorical question
scesis onomaton
schematismus
scheme
scurra
skotison
sententia
sermocinatio
simile
solecismus
soraismus
sorites
subjectio
sustentatio
syllepsis
syllogismus
symperasma
symploce
synaeresis
synaloepha
synathroesmus
syncatabasis
syncategorema
synchoresis
synchysis
syncope
syncrisis
synecdoche
synoeciosis
synonymia
synthesis
syntheton
synzeugma
systole
systrophe
tasis
tautologia
taxis
thaumasmus
tmesis
topographia
topothesia
traductio
transitio
transplacement
tricolon
page update: Feb. 26, 2007