re­pe­ti­ti­on of a sound at the

be­gin­ning of neigh­bou­ring words

di­rect or in­di­rect re­fe­rence to sth. that the rea­der/lis­te­ner knows

lis­ting of words, phra­ses, or ideas

strong ex­a­g­ge­ra­ti­on used for

se­rious or co­me­dic ef­fect

ex­pres­si­on of me­a­ning by using

lan­guage that ty­pi­cal­ly means the op­po­si­te

com­pa­ri­son using the words as or like

di­rect com­pa­ri­son of two dif­fe­rent things wit­hout using the words as or like

use of a word that imi­ta­tes the sound it re­fers to

ap­par­ent­ly con­tra­dic­to­ry terms ap­pearing toge­ther

re­pe­ti­ti­on of si­mi­lar or iden­ti­cal words, phra­ses, sen­tence struc­tu­re, etc. in the same or neigh­bou­ring sen­ten­ces

form of par­al­le­lism which re­pe­ats the same word(s) at the be­gin­ning of

neigh­bou­ring sen­ten­ces

tech­ni­que of re­pre­sen­ting ani­mals or ob­jects as if they were (like) human beings

use of a word or phra­se more than once in a sen­tence or text to em­pha­si­ze so­me­thing

a ques­ti­on to which the ans­wer seems

ob­vious and is the­re­fo­re not necess­a­ry

a part re­pre­sen­ting the whole or vice versa

state­ment in which the true ma­gni­tu­de of an idea or event is pre­sen­ted as less va­lu­a­ble or im­portant than it ac­tu­al­ly is