Introduction

Part One Semantic Devices

1．Simile

2．Metaphor

3．Analogy

4．Personification

5．Zoosemy

6．Synaesthesia

7．Hypallage

8．Verbal Symbol

9．Metonymy

10．Synecdoche

11．Antonomasia

12．Allusion

13．Euphemism

14．Periphrasis

15．Hyperbole

16．Understatement

17．Variation

18．Nicknaming

19．Paregmenon

20．Hendiadys

21．Epanorthosis

22．Repetition

23．Polysyndeton

24．Paradiastole

25．Polypunctuation

26．Pleonasm

27．Ellipsis

28．Asyndeton and Parataxis

29．Sentence Fragment

31．Aposiopesis

30．Paraleipsis

32．Syllepsis

33．Zeugma

34．Antithesis

35．Oxymoron

36．Paradox

37．Epigram

38．Parallelism

39．Climax

40．Anticlimax

41．Represented Speech

42．Ecphonesis or Exclamation

43．Dubitation

44．Pun

45．Irony

46．Innuendo

47．Satire

48．Ridicule

49．Rhetorical Question

50．Allegory

51．Inversion or Hyperbaton

52．Anagram

53．Palindrome

54．Malapropism

55．Spoonerism

56．Bull

57．Hysteron-proteron

58．Metastasis

59．Enallage or Functional Shift

60．Parody

61．Mimesis

62．Graphic

64．Prosopopoeia or Vision

63．Biblical Rhetoric

65．Apostrophe

66．Prolepsis

Part Two Phonetic Devices

1．Alliteration

2．Assonance

3．Consonance

4．Tongue Twisters

5．Onomatopoeia

6．Homeoteleuton

Part Three Syntactic Devices

1．Active and Passive Voices

2．Balanced and Parallel Structure

3．Short and Long Sentences

4．Sentence Types

5．Periodic Sentence and Loose Sentence

6．Appositives and Parentheses

Appendix Ⅰ

Appendix Ⅱ

Appendix Ⅲ

Bibliography