Acromonogram

Climax (Gradation) denotes such an arrangement of notions, expressed by words, word-combinations or sentences in which what precedes is less significant than what follows.
e.g.I am not in recession. I’m doing fine. I’m well-off. I’m almost rich. (D. Lodge)
It is used:
- to intensify the logical importance or emotional (nervous) strain;
- to show the increase in the volume, quantity, size, etc.
Detachmentis tearing a secondary part of the sentence away from the word it refers to, and gaining some independence and greater degree of significance. Detached parts are separated by means of commas and dashes.
e.g.She set her face and gazed under half-dropped lids at the funeral, stoic, fate-like. (D.H. Lawrence)
It is used:
- to emphasise a word or a phrase;
- to impart some additional syntactical meanings to the word or a phrase.
Ellipsis means the omission of one or both principle parts of a sentence.
e.g. If word got out, just think what would happen. Dogs as smart as men? A blasphemous assertion. (P. Auster)
It is used:
- to reproduce the direct speech of characters;
- to impart brevity, a quick tempo and emotional tension to the
narrative;
- as a means of dynamic description.
Emphatic construction “It is he...who” is turning the simple sentence into a complex one.
e.g. It was only then that I realized it was she I had seen on the lawn that day at Professor Something’s party. (J. Banville)
Emphatic construction with “do”reveals a certain degree of logical and emotional emphasis.
e.g. Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her. (W. Wordsworth)
Enumerationis built up by means of the repetition of homogeneous syntactical units.
e.g. She had lived through and noticed a certain amount of history. A war, a welfare state, the rise of meritocracy, European unity, little England, equality of opportunity, women liberation, the death of the individual. (A.S. Byatt)
Heterogeneous enumeration is used:
- to give the insight into the mind of the observer who pays attention to the variety of miscellaneous objects;
- for the purpose disorderly and therefore striking description;
- to arrest the reader’s attention, making him decipher the message.