Word figure
Word figures or expressive figures are rhetorical figures or stylistic devices. They operate on the textual surface and are created by rearranging, adding or removing words.
The following are to be classified as word figures:
- Accumulation
- Anadiplosis
- Anaphor
- Anastrophe
- Anti-climax
- Apheresis
- Apocopes
- archaism
- Asyndeton
- Inner major
- Brachylogy
- Twisted letters
- cipher
- Diaeresis
- elision
- ellipse
- Enumeration
- Epanalepsis
- epithet
- Epipher
- Geminatio
- Hendiadyoin
- Hiat / hiatus
- Hypall position
- Hysteron proteron
- Inflective
- inversion
- Climax
- Compound nouns
- Kyklos
- neologism
- oxymoron
- Pleonasm
- Polysyndeton
- Repetition
- Symploke
- tautology
- zeugma
See also:
literature
- Heinrich Lausberg : Handbook of literary rhetoric. A foundation of literary studies. 3rd ed. With a foreword by Arnold Arens . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05503-7 , pp. 309 f., § 602.
- Günther Schweikle, Dieter Burdorf (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexicon Literature. Terms and definitions. Metzler, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-01612-6 , p. 653.