Epithet, expresses characteristics of an object, both existing and imaginary. Its basic feature is its emotiveness and subjectivity: the characteristic attached to the object to qualify it is always chosen by the speaker himself., Graphon, intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or word combination) used to reflect its authentic pronunciation., Epiphora, a word or a phrase is repeated at the ends of successive clauses., Hyperbole, often a boldly overstated or exaggerated claim or statement that adds emphasis without the intention of being literally true., Oxymoron, a combination of two words (mostly an adjective and a noun or an adverb with an adjective) in which the meanings of the two clash, being opposite in sense., Anadiplosis, the repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause., Assonance, the similarity in sound between two syllables that are close together, created by the same vowels but different consonants (e.g. "back" and "hat")., Irony, a stylistic device in which the contextual evaluative meaning of a word is directly opposite to its dictionary meaning., Metaphor, transference of names based on the associated likeness between two objects. However, this device never makes clear comparisons. The resemblance is rather hidden and you've to put your brain to use to figure out how something compares to another. This means, a writer uses the literary device to keep you hooked to their work while also putting your thinking gears into motion., Periphrasis, a very peculiar stylistic device which basically consists of using a roundabout form of expression instead of a simpler one, i.e. of using a more or less complicated syntactical structure instead of a word., Anaphora, the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses. Allows writers to convey, emphasize, and reinforce meaning., Onomatopoeia, the use of words whose sounds imitate those of the signified object or action., Alliteration, the use, especially in poetry, of the same sound or sounds, especially consonants, at the beginning of several words that are close together., Climax, semantically complicated parallelism, in which each next word combination (clause, sentence) is logically more important or emotionally stronger and more explicit., Anticlimax, the chain of word combinations, sentences of clauses suddenly interrupted by an unexpected turn of the thought which defeats expectations of the reader (listener) and ends in complete semantic reversal of the emphasized idea..

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