Category:Figures of speech

B

• ► Buzzwords‎ (1 C, 40 P)

D

• ► Dysphemisms‎ (24 P)

E

• ► Euphemisms‎ (2 C, 108 P)

M

• ► Metaphors‎ (2 C, 43 P)
• ► Metonymy‎ (2 P)

O

• ► Onomatopoeia‎ (11 P)

P

• ► Puns‎ (16 P)

S

• ► Synecdoche‎ (3 P)

• Figure of speech

A

• Allusion
• Anadiplosis
• Anaphora (rhetoric)
• Antanaclasis
• Antanagoge
• Antithesis
• Apheresis (linguistics)
• Aphorismus
• Apocope
• Apophasis
• Aporia
• Asyndeton

B

• Barytonesis
• Breaking point (psychology)
• Bromide (language)

C

• Catachresis
• Cataphora
• Chiasmus
• Circumlocution
• Climax (figure of speech)
• Code word (figure of speech)
• Correption

D

• Diacope
• Dodo bird verdict
• Double entendre
• Dysphemism

E

• Elision
• Epanalepsis
• Epenthesis
• Epistrophe
• Eponym
• L'esprit de l'escalier
• Euphemism

H

• Herd mentality
• Hypallage
• Hypocatastasis
• Hysteron proteron

I

• Isocolon

J

• Just-so story

L

• Lone wolf (trait)

M

• Merism
• Mess of pottage
• Metalepsis
• Metaphor
• Metaplasm
• Monologue

O

• Ostrich policy

P

• Paradiastole
• Paraprosdokian
• Pars pro toto
• Pathetic fallacy
• Pissing contest
• Pleonasm
• Polite fiction
• Pollyanna principle
• Polyptoton
• Polysyndeton
• Procatalepsis
• Prophetic perfect tense
• Prosopopoeia

R

• Red herring
• Rest of the world in sports and games

S

• Sandancer
• Sarcasm
• Scheme (linguistics)
• See a man about a dog
• Shadow of the leader
• Simile
• Social trap
• Spoonerism
• Synaeresis
• Synecdoche
• Synesis

T

• Tip of the tongue
• TOTimal
• Totum pro parte
• Trope (literature)

Z

• Zeugma