An open list of 443 words by mercy.
- syllepsis appears on 45 other lists and has 1 comment
- zeugma appears on 99 other lists and has 28 comments
- trope appears on 93 other lists and has 5 comments
- wellerism appears on 4 other lists
- anastrophe appears on 35 other lists and has 2 comments
- anaphora appears on 52 other lists and has 4 comments
- apostrophe appears on 67 other lists and has 21 comments
- metonymy appears on 142 other lists and has 5 comments
- chiasmus appears on 87 other lists and has 23 comments
- antimetabole appears on 17 other lists and has 4 comments
- syncope appears on 45 other lists and has 1 comment
- open-list appears on 9 other lists and has 22 comments
- accismus appears on 33 other lists and has 5 comments
- abating appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- abbaser has 3 comments
- abecedarian appears on 80 other lists and has 6 comments
- abcisio
- ablatio
- abominatio
- abuse appears on 12 other lists and has 7 comments
- abusio appears on 1 other list
- abusion appears on 4 other lists and has 1 comment
- acoloutha
- accismus appears on 33 other lists and has 5 comments
- accumulatio
- accusatio adversa
- accusatio
- acervatio
- acrostic appears on 32 other lists
- acyrologia appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- acyron
- adage appears on 46 other lists and has 2 comments
- adagium
- addubitatio
- adhortatio
- adianoeta appears on 5 other lists
- adjectio
- adjournment appears on 4 other lists
- adjudicatio
- adjunct appears on 28 other lists
- adjunctio
- admonitio
- adnexio
- adnominatio
- adynaton appears on 4 other lists and has 1 comment
- aeschrologia
- aetiologia
- affirmatio
- affirmation appears on 14 other lists
- aganactesis
- agnominatio
- agnomination appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- aischrologia
- allegory appears on 66 other lists and has 1 comment
- alleotheta
- alliteration appears on 69 other lists and has 2 comments
- amara irrisio
- ambiguitas
- ambiguous appears on 96 other lists and has 2 comments
- amphibologia
- ampliatio
- anacephalaeosis appears on 1 other list
- anacoenosis appears on 2 other lists
- anacoloutha
- anacoluthon appears on 43 other lists and has 2 comments
- anadiplosis appears on 14 other lists and has 2 comments
- anamnesis appears on 36 other lists and has 2 comments
- anangeon
- anaphora appears on 52 other lists and has 4 comments
- anapodoton appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- anastrophe appears on 35 other lists and has 2 comments
- anemographia appears on 1 other list
- anesis appears on 3 other lists
- antanaclasis appears on 27 other lists and has 3 comments
- antanagoge appears on 2 other lists
- anthimeria appears on 7 other lists and has 2 comments
- anthropopatheia
- anthypophora
- anticategoria appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- anticipation appears on 16 other lists and has 1 comment
- antilogy appears on 15 other lists and has 4 comments
- antimetabole appears on 17 other lists and has 4 comments
- antipersonification
- antiphrasis appears on 11 other lists and has 1 comment
- antiprosopopoeia
- antiptosis appears on 2 other lists
- antirrhesis appears on 3 other lists and has 1 comment
- antisagoge
- antisthecon
- antistrophe appears on 14 other lists and has 1 comment
- antithesis appears on 113 other lists
- antitheton
- apagoresis
- aphaeresis appears on 7 other lists and has 3 comments
- aphorismus appears on 1 other list
- apocarteresis appears on 3 other lists and has 2 comments
- apocope appears on 45 other lists and has 7 comments
- apodioxis appears on 1 other list
- apologue appears on 18 other lists and has 1 comment
- apoplanesis appears on 2 other lists
- aporia appears on 73 other lists and has 4 comments
- aposiopesis appears on 74 other lists and has 9 comments
- apostrophe appears on 67 other lists and has 21 comments
- apothegm appears on 60 other lists and has 3 comments
- apparent refusal
- appositio
- apposition appears on 8 other lists
- ara appears on 2 other lists
- articulus
- aschematismus
- aschematiston
- assonance appears on 46 other lists and has 2 comments
- assumptio
- assumption appears on 16 other lists and has 3 comments
- asteismus appears on 2 other lists
- astrothesia appears on 1 other list
- asyndeton appears on 28 other lists and has 5 comments
- auxesis appears on 10 other lists and has 2 comments
- barbarism appears on 8 other lists and has 3 comments
- battologia
- bdelygmia appears on 8 other lists and has 4 comments
- benedictio
- brachiepia
- brachylogia appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- broad floute
- cacemphaton appears on 8 other lists and has 2 comments
- cacophonia
- cacozelia appears on 19 other lists and has 2 comments
- catachresis appears on 87 other lists and has 2 comments
- cataphasis appears on 1 other list
- categoria
- cause shown
- change of name
- charientismus
- chiasmus appears on 87 other lists and has 23 comments
- chronographia appears on 1 other list
- civille jest
- climax appears on 46 other lists and has 4 comments
- coenotes
- comma appears on 23 other lists and has 6 comments
- communicatio
- compensatio
- compositum ex contrariis
- conceit appears on 36 other lists
- conclusio
- conduplicatio appears on 2 other lists
- conjunctio
- contencion
- continued metaphor
- contrast appears on 18 other lists
- counterchange appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- cutting from the end
- deprecatio
- dialogismus
- dianoea
- diaporesis
- diaskeue
- dicaeologia
- distinctio appears on 1 other list
- doubtfull
- elenchus appears on 3 other lists
- energia
- ennoia appears on 1 other list
- epanodos appears on 3 other lists and has 3 comments
- eucharistia
- eustathia
- expeditio
- homoioteleuton appears on 2 other lists
- inter se pugnantia
- mesarchia
- oeonismus
- parathesis appears on 1 other list
- proslepsis
- prosopographia appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- prosopopoeia appears on 27 other lists and has 1 comment
- prosphonesis
- apodixis appears on 5 other lists and has 1 comment
- cataplexis
- common cause
- conciliatio
- graecismus
- hyperbole appears on 137 other lists and has 11 comments
- hysteron proteron appears on 16 other lists
- merismus
- adynata appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- antenantiosis
- antimetathesis appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- antistasis appears on 4 other lists and has 2 comments
- antonomasia appears on 22 other lists and has 11 comments
- apophasis appears on 42 other lists and has 4 comments
- asphalia appears on 3 other lists and has 2 comments
- avancer
- aversio
- cacosyntheton
- casus pro casu
- catacosmesis appears on 1 other list
- characterismus
- chorographia
- chreia appears on 1 other list
- circumlocutio
- clause appears on 17 other lists
- colon appears on 16 other lists and has 1 comment
- combined repetition
- commoratio appears on 3 other lists and has 1 comment
- commutatio
- comparatio
- complexio
- comprobatio appears on 1 other list
- concessio
- condescensio
- condescension appears on 16 other lists
- congeries appears on 31 other lists and has 4 comments
- contentio
- contractio
- contrarium
- correctio appears on 2 other lists
- counterfait in personation
- counterfait place
- counterfeit time
- counter turne
- cutted comma
- deesis appears on 3 other lists
- dehortatio
- dendrographia appears on 1 other list
- descriptio
- diacope appears on 7 other lists
- diaeresis appears on 22 other lists and has 5 comments
- dialysis appears on 7 other lists
- dialyton
- diaphora
- diastole appears on 10 other lists and has 1 comment
- diasyrmus appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- diazeugma appears on 1 other list
- digressio
- dilemma appears on 30 other lists and has 1 comment
- dirimens copulatio appears on 2 other lists
- distributio
- ecphonesis appears on 2 other lists
- ecphrasis appears on 4 other lists and has 1 comment
- effictio appears on 1 other list
- ellipsis appears on 65 other lists and has 6 comments
- emphasis appears on 16 other lists
- enallage appears on 9 other lists and has 1 comment
- enantiosis appears on 4 other lists and has 2 comments
- enargia appears on 1 other list
- encomium appears on 126 other lists and has 6 comments
- enigma appears on 117 other lists and has 1 comment
- enthymeme appears on 23 other lists
- enumeratio appears on 2 other lists
- epanalepsis appears on 12 other lists and has 1 comment
- epanorthosis appears on 11 other lists and has 1 comment
- epenthesis appears on 19 other lists and has 1 comment
- epergesis
- epexegesis appears on 9 other lists and has 3 comments
- epicrisis appears on 3 other lists
- epilogus
- epimone appears on 1 other list
- epiphonema appears on 3 other lists
- epiplexis appears on 5 other lists
- epistrophe appears on 13 other lists and has 1 comment
- epitasis appears on 3 other lists
- epitheton
- episynaloephe
- epitrochasmus
- epitrope appears on 5 other lists and has 1 comment
- epizeugma
- erotema appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- ethopoeia appears on 3 other lists
- euche
- eulogia appears on 2 other lists
- euphemismus
- eutrepismus
- excitatio
- exclamatio
- excursus appears on 17 other lists
- exergasia appears on 1 other list
- exouthenismos
- expolitio
- exuscitatio
- frequentatio
- geographia
- gnome appears on 46 other lists and has 10 comments
- hendiadys appears on 34 other lists and has 2 comments
- homiologia
- homoeosis
- homoioptoton
- horismus
- hydrographia appears on 1 other list
- hypallage appears on 22 other lists and has 4 comments
- hyperbaton appears on 15 other lists and has 4 comments
- hypophora appears on 2 other lists
- hypotyposis appears on 8 other lists and has 1 comment
- hypozeuxis appears on 5 other lists
- hysterologia
- inopinaturm
- interrogatio
- intimation appears on 18 other lists and has 1 comment
- irony appears on 75 other lists and has 7 comments
- isocolon appears on 1 other list
- macrologia
- martyria
- medela appears on 1 other list
- maxim appears on 46 other lists
- membrum
- mesodiplosis
- metabasis appears on 3 other lists
- metaphor appears on 68 other lists and has 11 comments
- metaplasm appears on 9 other lists
- metathesis appears on 20 other lists and has 1 comment
- mimesis appears on 44 other lists
- mycterismus
- onedismus
- onomatopoeia appears on 253 other lists and has 9 comments
- orcos
- palilogia
- paradiastole appears on 8 other lists and has 2 comments
- paradiegesis
- paradigma appears on 2 other lists
- paragoge appears on 10 other lists
- parallelism appears on 8 other lists
- paramythia
- parecbasis
- paregmenon appears on 3 other lists
- parembole
- pareuresis
- paroemia appears on 2 other lists
- paroemion
- paromologia
- parrhesia appears on 15 other lists and has 2 comments
- perclusio
- perissologia appears on 1 other list
- permutatio
- philophronesis appears on 2 other lists and has 2 comments
- pleonasm appears on 108 other lists and has 12 comments
- ploce appears on 3 other lists and has 1 comment
- pragmatographia
- proclees
- prodiorthosis
- prolepsis appears on 34 other lists and has 2 comments
- protherapeia
- protrope
- pysma
- repetitio
- restrictio
- schematismus appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- skotison appears on 1 other list
- sermocinatio
- simile appears on 35 other lists and has 18 comments
- solecismus
- sorites appears on 8 other lists
- subjectio
- syllepsis appears on 45 other lists and has 1 comment
- synathroesmus appears on 1 other list
- synchoresis appears on 1 other list
- synecdoche appears on 204 other lists and has 6 comments
- synoeciosis appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- synthesis appears on 34 other lists and has 1 comment
- synzeugma
- systrophe
- tasis
- taxis appears on 2 other lists
- thaumasmus
- topographia
- transitio
- verborum bombus appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- bomphiologia appears on 1 other list and has 1 comment
- consonance appears on 31 other lists
- conversio
- ecthlipsis appears on 2 other lists
- epizeuxis appears on 20 other lists and has 5 comments
- example appears on 8 other lists and has 5 comments
- heterogenium
- homoeoprophoron
- hypozeugma appears on 3 other lists
- icon appears on 25 other lists and has 2 comments
- indignatio appears on 1 other list
- insinuatio
- litotes appears on 83 other lists and has 4 comments
- meiosis appears on 25 other lists and has 1 comment
- mempsis
- mesozeugma appears on 2 other lists
- metalepsis appears on 13 other lists
- metallage appears on 1 other list and has 3 comments
- metastasis appears on 15 other lists
- metonymy appears on 142 other lists and has 5 comments
- noema appears on 6 other lists
- ominatio
- optatio
- oxymoron appears on 86 other lists and has 13 comments
- paenismus
- parabola appears on 52 other lists
- paradox appears on 139 other lists
- paraenesis appears on 1 other list
- paralipsis appears on 13 other lists and has 1 comment
- parelcon appears on 1 other list
- parenthesis appears on 19 other lists
- paromoiosis
- paronomasia appears on 51 other lists and has 6 comments
- pathopoeia appears on 5 other lists and has 1 comment
- periergia
- period appears on 19 other lists and has 8 comments
- periphrasis appears on 39 other lists and has 2 comments
- peristasis
- personification appears on 24 other lists
- polyptoton appears on 13 other lists and has 5 comments
- polysyndeton appears on 26 other lists and has 5 comments
- procatalepsis appears on 4 other lists
- proecthesis
- prosapodosis
- prosonomasia appears on 1 other list
- prothesis appears on 2 other lists
- proverb appears on 17 other lists
- prozeugma appears on 3 other lists
- ratiocinatio
- repotia
- rhetorical question appears on 5 other lists and has 1 comment
- sarcasmus
- scesis onomaton appears on 2 other lists and has 1 comment
- scheme appears on 27 other lists
- scurra
- sententia appears on 5 other lists
- soraismus appears on 1 other list
- sustentatio
- syllogismus
- symperasma
- symploce appears on 14 other lists
- synaeresis appears on 4 other lists
- syncatabasis
- syncategorema
- synchysis appears on 9 other lists
- syncope appears on 45 other lists and has 1 comment
- syncrisis
- synonymia appears on 1 other list
- syntheton
- systole appears on 12 other lists and has 1 comment
- tapinosis appears on 3 other lists
- tautologia
- tmesis appears on 116 other lists and has 11 comments
- topothesia has 1 comment
- traductio
- transplacement
- tricolon appears on 8 other lists
- zeugma appears on 99 other lists and has 28 comments
mercy Thank you! As you can see, it's mostly thanks to Telofy. : ) Jul 4, 2011
marky cool list! Jul 1, 2011