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      • Figures A
        • Abominatio
        • Accismus
        • Adjunctum
        • ÆNIGMA
        • Affirmatio
        • Allegory
        • Amphibologia
        • Anabasis
        • Anadiplosis
        • Anantapodoton
        • Anaphonema
        • Anaphonesis
        • Anesis
        • Antezeugmenon
        • Antistrophe
        • Apodioxis
        • Apologue
        • Aposiopesis
        • Apostrophe
        • Assumptio
        • Asteismos (addition)
        • ASTEÏSMOS (change)
        • Asteismus
        • Asterismos
        • Asyndeton
        • Aversio
      • Figures B
        • Battologia
        • Benedictio
        • Biæon
        • Brachylogia
        • Breviloquence
      • Figures C
        • Catabasis
        • Catachresis
        • Cataphasis
        • Circumductio
        • Compositio
        • Concessio
        • Concisa Locutio
        • Congeries
        • Conjunctum
        • Constructio Prægnans
      • Figures D
        • Decrementum
        • Detestatio
        • Diallage
        • Dialogismos
        • Dialysis
        • Dialyton
        • Dianœa
        • Diexodos
        • Diezeugmenon
        • Digestio
        • Diminutio
        • Discriminatio
        • Disjunctio
        • Dissolutio
        • Distributio
      • Figures E
        • Ecphonesis
        • Ellipsis
          • Ellipsis: Absolute
            • Nouns: Nominative
            • Nouns: Accusative
            • Absolute: Pronouns
            • Absolute of Connected Words
            • Verbs: Finite
            • The Verb “To Say”
            • Verbs: Infinitives
            • Verbs: Able
            • Verbs: after “to Finish”
            • Infinitive wanting after another Verb
            • Verb Substantive
            • Participle Omitted
            • Certain Connected Words
            • Whole Clause
            • Anantapodoton
          • Ellipsis: Relative
            • Cognate Words
            • A Contrary Word
            • Of Analogous Words
            • Contained in Another Word
          • Ellipsis: Repetition
            • Simple
              • Nouns and Pronouns
              • Verb From Preceding Clause
              • Particles
              • Preceding Connected Words
            • Complex
        • Enigma
        • Epichoresis
        • Epimerismos
        • Epitasis
        • Epitrochasmos
        • Euche
        • Exclamatio
        • Exemplum
      • Figures F
        • Fabula
      • Figures G
        • Gnome
      • Figures H
        • Hypocatastasis
        • Hypozeugma
        • Hypozeuxis
      • Figures I
      • Figures L
        • Litotes
        • Logismus
      • Figures M
        • Meiosis
        • Merismos
        • Mesozeugma
        • Metalepsis
        • Metaphor
        • Metonymy
          • Metonymy Of The Cause
          • Metonymy Of The Effect
          • Metonymy Of The Subject
          • Metonymy Of The Adjunct
          • Metalepsis
      • Figures N
        • Negatio
      • Figures O
      • Figures P
        • Parabola
        • Paradiastole
        • Percursio
        • Pleonasm
        • Polysyndeton
        • Prolepsis (ampliatio)
        • Prolepsis (occupatio)
        • Prosapodosis
      • Figures R
      • Figures S
        • Simile
        • Syllogismus
        • Synchoresis
        • Synecdoché
      • Figures T
      • Figures V
      • Figures Z
        • Zeugma
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    • Polysyndeton And A Syndeton Roll
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    • Polysyndeton’s Quite Dinner Guest
    • Polysyndeton: The Appetizer
    • Polysyndeton: Too Many Conjunctions
    • Polysyndeton: there’s a whole in the bucket.
    • Poly-which-a-ma-callit
    • Epibole: Repetition at irregular intervals.
    • Anaphora
    • Primarily Secondary
    • Synecdoche, a suburb of Metonymy
    • Metonymy: the god of this world.
    • God Will Provide
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