Sentence figure
The sentence figures form part of the stylistic devices or rhetorical figures . They denote all stylistic devices that create a special syntactic structure, i.e. change the sentence as a whole.
Stylistic devices
The following stylistic devices can be assigned to the sentence figures:
- Anacoluth
- Antilabe
- acrostic
- Aposiopesis
- Chiasmus
- Correctio
- Tricolon (dicolon)
- Distich
- Enjambement
- Epanodos
- Epiphrase
- Exclamatio
- Hyperbaton
- Hypotax
- Hysteron proteron
- imperative
- Inconsistency
- Inversion (language)
- Concinnity
- Obsecratio
- Parallelism (rhetoric)
- Paratax
- redundancy
- Rhetorical question
- solecism
- Subiectio
- Synesis
- Tetracolon
- Tricolon