Acromonogram

Epiphora is the repetition of the same unit at the end of two or more successive clauses or sentences.
e.g. World is evil
Life is evil
All is evil
if i ride the horse of hate
with its evil hooded eye
turning world to evil. (L. Ferlinghetti)
It is used:
- to attract the reader’s attention to the key-word of the utterance;
- to give rhythm to the utterance.
Epithet is a word or a group of words giving an expressive characterization of the object described.
e.g. Trite epithets: blood-thirsty thoughts, dead silence, etc.
Genuine epithets: knifing hangover, elephantine body, industrial-looking food, much-to-long-and-tight-under-the arms dress, she said it in an I-don't-think-you're-being-very-sensitive sort of voice, the tiny box of a kitchen.
It is used to show individual attitude of the speaker towards the person or thing described.
Euphemism is a word that replaces another word of similar but stronger meaning.
e.g. I was thinking an unmentionable thing about your mother. (I. Shaw)
It is used:
- to soften an otherwise coarse or unpleasant idea, to produce mild effect;
- to avoid any kind of discrimination (agism, sexism, etc).
Graphonis intentional violation of the spelling of a word/word combination used to reflect its authentic pronunciation.
e.g. “Thith thtuff thtics in my mouth’, complained the rat. ‘It’th worth than caramel candy’. (E.B. White)
It is used:
- to characterise the speaker as a person of a certain locality, breeding,
education and even social standing;
- to show the speaker’s inability to pronounce words according to the
standard (intoxication, lisp, stammer, etc);
- to reproduce the emphatic pronunciation of words.
Hypallage– metonymical/transferred epithet.
e.g. He took his sad chair and lit a cigarette.