Imagery- the figurative language, especially metaphors and similes, used in poetry, plays, and other literary works

Syntax- the ordering of and relationship between the words and other structural elements in phrases and sentences Irony- humor based on using words to suggest the opposite of their literal meaning Litotes- a deliberate understatement, often expressed negatively. "Because though no beauty by fashion-mag standards, the ample-bodied Ms. Klause, we agreed, was a not unclever, not unattractive young woman, not unpopular with her classmates both male and female." Synecdoche- a figure of speech in which the word for part of something is used to mean the whole. nice wheels=car. Alliteration- a poetic or literary effect achieved by using several words that begin with the same or similar consonants, as in "Whither wilt thou wander, wayfarer?" Chiasmus- a rhetorical construction in which the order of the words in the second of two paired phrases is the reverse of the order in the first. An example is "gray was the morn, all things were gray." Antithesis- a use of words or phrases that contrast with each other to create a balanced effect. it was the best of times, it was the worst of times Loose sentence- a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. He went into town to buy groceries, visit his friends and go to the bookstore. Periodic sentence- emphasizes its main idea by placing it at the end, following all the subordinate clauses and other modifiers that support the principal idea. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius."