Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Figures of Speech in English

2.1 Figures of speech as techniques of figurative language in communication

2.2 Definition of figure of speech

2.3 History and etymology of the term"figure"

2.4 Functions of figures of speech

2.5 Classification of figures of speech

Chapter 3 Figures of Humor

3.1 Acutezza

3.2 Irony

3.3 Malapropism

3.4 Paraprosdokian

3.5 Paronomasia

3.6 Pun

3.7 Spoonerism

3.8 Tom Swifty

3.9 Wellerism

Chapter 4 Figures of Meaning

4.1 Accumulatio

4.2 Acyron

4.3 Adianoeta

4.4 Adynaton

4.5 Allegory

4.6 Amphibology/Amphiboly

4.7 Anacoluthon

4.8 Anacrusis

4.9 Antiphrasis

4.10 Aphorismus

4.11 Apposition

4.12 Archaism

4.13 Asterismos

4.14 Aureation

4.15 Correctio

4.16 Distinctio

4.17 Fictio

4.18 Glossolalia

4.19 Hypocatastasis

4.20 Merism

4.21 Merismos

Chapter 5 Figures of Omission

5.1 Anapodoton

5.2 Apocope

5.3 Aphaeresis

5.4 Aposiopesis/Praecisio

5.5 Cataphora

5.6 Paralipsis

5.7 Parisology

5.8 Polysyndeton

5.9 Praeteritio

5.10 Synaloepha

5.11 Syncope

Chapter 6 Conclusion

Appendix

References