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Hypallage
Hypallage (hy-pal’-la-ge): Shifting the application of words. Mixing the order of which words should correspond with which others. Also, sometimes, a synonym for metonymy (see Quintilian). Can I… more →
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Hypallage
wrote 11 hours ago: Hypallage (hy-pal’-la-ge): Shifting the application of words. Mixing the order of which words … more →
Diaphora
wrote 1 day ago: Diaphora (di-a’-pho-ra): Repetition of a common name so as to perform two logical functions: t … more →
Coenotes
wrote 6 days ago: Coenotes (cee’-no-tees): Repetition of two different phrases: one at the beginning and the oth … more →
Antiprosopopoeia
wrote 1 week ago: Antiprosopopoeia (an-ti-pro-so-po-pe’-i-a): The representation of persons [or other animate be … more →
Auxesis
wrote 1 week ago: Auxesis (ok-see’-sis): (1) Arranging words or clauses in a sequence of increasing force. In th … more →
Effictio
wrote 2 weeks ago: Effictio (ef-fik’-ti-o): A verbal depiction of someone’s body, often from head to toe. N … more →
Systrophe
wrote 2 weeks ago: Systrophe (si’-stro-fee): The listing of many qualities or descriptions of someone or somethin … more →
Epexegesis
wrote 2 weeks ago: Epexegesis (ep-ex-e-ge’-sis): When one interprets what one has just said. A kind of redefiniti … more →
Mesarchia
wrote 2 weeks ago: Mesarchia (mes-ar’-chi-a): The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning and middl … more →
Enantiosis
wrote 2 weeks ago: Enantiosis (e-nan-ti-o’-sis): Using opposing or contrary descriptions together, typically in a … more →
Ecphonesis
wrote 3 weeks ago: Ecphonesis (ec-pho-nee’-sis): An emotional exclamation. Pat: “Help! I’ve fallen an … more →
Consonance
wrote 3 weeks ago: Consonance: The repetition of consonants in words stressed in the same place (but whose vowels diffe … more →
Epergesis
wrote 4 weeks ago: Epergesis (e-per-gee’-sis): Interposing an apposition, often in order to clarify what has just … more →
Inopinatum
wrote 1 month ago: Inopinatum (in-o-pi-na’-tum): The expression of one’s inability to believe or conceive o … more →
Eucharistia
wrote 1 month ago: Eucharistia (eu-cha-ris’-ti-a): Giving thanks for a benefit received, sometimes adding one … more →
Antimetabole
wrote 1 month ago: Antimetabole (an’-ti-me-ta’-bo-lee): Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reve … more →
Abbaser
wrote 1 month ago: Abbaser [George] Puttenham’s English term for tapinosis. Also equivalent to meiosis: reference … more →
Exouthenismos
wrote 1 month ago: Exouthenismos (ex-ou-then-is’-mos): An expression of contempt. Your so-called advice is a fata … more →
Homoioptoton
wrote 2 months ago: Homoioptoton (ho-mee-op-to’-ton): The repetition of similar case endings in adjacent words or … more →
