Figures of Speech

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ow many of the following words can you match to the definitions below?
accumulatio, anadiplosis, anaphora, anapodoton, anastrophe, antanclasis, anthimeria, antiptosis, antisthecon, antithesis, aphaersis,  apocope, aporia, aposiopesis, asyndeton, asterismos, auxesis, brachylogia, catachresis, diacope, ellipsis, enallage, enthymene, epanados, epanalepsis, epanorthosis, epenthesis, epistrophe, epizeuxis, gradatio, hendiadys, hypallage, hyperbaton, hysteron- proteron, isocolon, metaplasmus, metanymy, paradiastole, periphrasis, pleonasm, ploce, polyptoton, polysyndeton, praeteritio, proparalepsis, prosthesis, repetitio, scesis, onamaton, syllepsis, synaloepha, synecdoche, tmesis, zeugma.
  • addition as correction
  • addition of a disjunctive conjunction
  • addition of a word to emphasize what follows
  • addition of conjunctions
  • addition of letter(s) to the beginning
  • addition of letter(s) to the end
  • addition of letter(s) to the middle
  • addition of superfluous words
  • arrangement by reversal of order
  • arrangement in ascending importance
  • arrangement of one word into two
  • breaking off as if unable or unwilling to continue
  • effective misspelling
  • ellipsis of a verb from one of two or more usually parallel clauses
  • immediate repetition
  • inclusion of something by pretending to omit it
  • irregular repetition of a word or phrase
  • misplacement of a single element
  • omission entailing a pun
  • omission of a clause
  • omission of a conjunction between words or phrases
  • omission of a conjunction
  • omission of a logically implied clause
  • omission of a vowel and arrangement of two words into one
  • omission of letter(s) at the beginning
  • omission of letter(s) from the end
  • omission of the only verb of a sentence
  • omission of a word or phrase
  • repeated anadiplosis
  • repetition by negation
  • repetition in different senses
  • repetition in other words
  • repetition in the opposite order
  • repetition of a word in a general and restricted sense
  • repetition of an end at the next beginning
  • repetition of beginnings
  • repetition of ends
  • repetition of grammatical forms
  • repetition of the beginning at the end
  • repetition of the same word or root in different grammatical function
  • repetition with only a word or two between
  • reversal of temporal order
  • reversal which seems to change the sense
  • substitution of a conjunction as a modifier
  • substitution of a prepositional phrase for an adjective
  • substitution of a word for a related word such as cause for effect
  • substitution of letter(s)
  • substitution of more words for less
  • substitution of one grammatical form for another, an effective grammatical mistake
  • substitution of one part of speech for another
  • substitution of the part for a whole
  • talking about not being able to talk about

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