Acromonogram

-to characterise through analogy;
- to broaden the nominal meaning of a word or a phrase into a generalised
concept.
Anadiplosis is the repetition of the final unit of one utterance at the beginning of the next utterance.
e.g. I was home in a sleeping world, a world as harmless as a sleeping cat. (R. Chandler)
t was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. (R. Chandler)
It is used:
- to attract the reader’s attention to the key-word of the utterance;
- to give rhythm to the utterance.
Anaphora implies identity of one or several initial elements in some successive sentences.
e.g. Hunger stole upon me so slowly that at first I was not aware of what hunger really meant. Hunger had always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at me gaunly. (R. Wright)
It is used:
- to attract the reader’s attention to the key-word of the utterance;
- to give rhythm to the utterance.
Anticlimax consists in adding one weaker element to one or several strong ones, mentioned before.
e.g. Not all men are annoying. Some are dead. (anonymous)
In twenty minutes you can sink a battleship, down three or four planes, hold a double execution. You can die, get married, get fired and find a new job, have a tooth pulled, have your tonsils out. In twenty minutes you can even get up in the morning. (R. Chandler)
It is used:
- to produce “defeated expectancy” effect;
- to attract the reader’s attention;
- to produce humorous or satirical effect;
- to decline from a noble (pompous), impressive tone to a less exalted one.
Antithesis consists in putting together two ideas that are quite opposite.
e.g. Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humour to console him for what he is. (anonymous)
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. (R.W. Emerson)
It may be used:
- to create certain rhythmic effect;
- to compare two objects or to set a contrast between them;
- to connect words, clauses or sentences and to unite their senses;
- to disconnect words and disunite their senses.