Acromonogram

Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement.
e.g. She wore a hat with a crown the size of a whisky glass and a brim you could have wrapped the week’s laundry in. (R. Chandler)
The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on. (R. Chandler)
It is used:
- to exaggerate quantity or quality;
- to serve expressive and emotive purposes;
- to produce some humorous effect.
Inversion consists in unusual arrangement of words for the purpose of making one of them more emphatic.
e.g. Of my country and of my family I have little to say. (E.A. Poe)
Irony is the use of a word in a sense that is opposite of its usual meaning. There is always a contrast between the notion named and the notion meant.
e.g. A nice sense of humour – like a morgue attendant. (R. Chandler)
Irony is used:
- to intensify the evaluative meaning of the utterance;
- to produce humorous effect;
- to express very subtle, almost imperceptible nuances of meaning;
- to show irritation, displeasure, pity, regret, etc.
Litotes is expressing an idea by means of negating the opposite idea.
e.g. Mary was in a state of mind to rejoice in a connection with the Bertram family, and to be not displeased with her brother’s marrying a little beneath him. (J. Austen)
Metaphoris transference of names based on similarity between two objects.
e.g. Original metaphor: A man who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there are no eyes.
Trite metaphor: seeds of evil, roots of evil, to burn with desire.
If we do not make common cause to save the good old ship of the Union on this voyage, nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage. (Abraham Lincoln)
It may serve:
- as an image-creative device;
- to characterise or describe objects or people;
- to impart some expressive or emotive force to utterance.