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Rhetorical Devices and Figures of Speech

allegory;

alliteration;

anacoluthon;

anadiplosis;

anaphora;

anastrophe;

antiphrasis;

antistrophe;

antithesis;

antonomasia;

aporia;

apostrophe;

assonance;

bathos;

cacophemism;

catachresis;

chiasmus;

circumlocution;

diacope;

dysphemism;

echoism;

ellipsis;

enallage;

epanalepsis;

epanorthosis;

epiphora;

epistrophe;

epizeuxis;

euphemism;

euphony;

euphuism;

hendiadys;

homeoteleuton;

hypallage

hyperbaton

hyperbole

hysteron proteron

innuendo

irony

isocolon

litotes

meiosis

metaphor

metonymy

onomatopoeia

oxymoron

paradox

paralipsis

paronomasia

periphrasis

personification

pleonasm

prolepsis

prosopopoeia

pun

rhetorical question

sarcasm

simile

syllepsis

symploce

synecdoche

tautology

transferred epithet

trope

zeugma

Verse Forms

alcaics (or alcaic verse);

alexandrine verse;

alliterative verse;

Anacreontics;

ballad;

ballade;

blank verse;

Clerihew;

dactylics (or dactylic verse);

doggerel;

dramatic monologue;

echo verse;

elegy;

epic;

epigram;

epode;

epopee;

fixed form;

free verse;

haiku;

heroic verse;

Horatian ode;

iambics (or iambic verse);

Leonines;

limerick;

lyric;

macaronics (or macaronic verse)

madrigal

monody

ode

ottava rima

pantoum/pantun

Petrarchan sonnet

Pindaric

quatorzain

rhyme royal

ritornello

rondeau

roundel

sapphics

secondary epic

sequidilla

sestina

sonnet

Spenserian stanza

tail rhyme

tanka

terza rima

triolet

triplet

trochaics (or trochaic verse)

villanelle

virelay

Metres and Metrical Feet

alexandrine;

amphibrach;

amphimacer;

anapaest/anapest;

choree;

choriamb/choriambus;

cretic;

dactyl;

decasyllable;

dimeter;

dipody;

distich;

disyllable;

duple metre;

elegiac couplet;

elegiac distich;

heptameter;

heroic couplet

hexameter

iamb/iambus

iambic pentameter

ionic

monometer

octameter

paeon

pentameter

pyrrhic

spondee

tetrameter

tribrach

trimeter

trisyllable

trochee

Types of Poem

aubade;

ballad;

ballade;

bucolic;

chanson;

clerihew;

dirge;

dithyramb;

dramatic monologue;

eclogue;

elegy;

encomium;

epic;

epigram;

epithalamium;

epode;

epyllion;

georgic;

ghazal;

haiku;

idyll;

lay;

limerick;

lyric

madrigal

monody

nursery rhyme

ode

palinode

pastoral

prothalamion

quatorzain

renga

rondeau

roundel

roundelay

saga

sapphics

satire

sestina

sonnet

tanka

threnody

triolet

vilanelle

virelay

 

Types of Novel

Aga saga;

antinovel;

autobiographical novel;

Bildungsroman;

bodice-ripper;

detective story/novel;

dime novel;

epistolary novel;

Gothic novel;

graphic novel;

historical novel;

nouveau roman;

novelette;

novelization;

novella;

photonovel;

picaresque novel

police procedural

policier

roman-à-clef

roman-à-thèse

roman expérimental

roman-fleuve

roman noir

romantic novel

saga

stream of consciousness

sword and sorcery

techno-thriller

thriller

western

whodunnit

Types of Story

adventure story

allegory

bedtime story

black comedy

blockbuster

cliffhanger

comedy

conte

crime story

detective story

epic

exemplum

fable

fabliau

fairy story

fairy tale

fantasy

folk story

folk tale

ghost story

gothic novel

heartbreaker

historical novel

horror story

just-so story

legend

Märchen

mystery

myth

nancy story

parable

romance

saga

short story

spine-chiller

tearjerker

thriller

true story

urban myth

western

whodunnit