Part One Introduction Chapter One Figures of Speech Part Two Phonetic Figures of Speech Chapter Two Alliteration Chapter Three Assonance Chapter Four Consonance Chapter Five Homeoteleuton Chapter Six Onomatopoeia Chapter Seven Aposiopesis Chapter Eight Apostrophe Chapter Nine Pun Part Three Syntactic Figures of Speech Chapter Ten Repetition Chapter Eleven Parallelism Chapter Twelve Antithesis Chapter Thirteen Chiasmus Chapter Fourteen Climax Chapter Fifteen Anticlimax Chapter Sixteen Zeugma Chapter Seventeen Syllepsis Chapter Eighteen Palindrome Chapter Nineteen Asyndeton Chapter Twenty Anastrophe Chapter Twenty-one Ellipsis Chapter Twenty-two Apposition Chapter Twenty-three Parenthesis Chapter Twenty-four Rhetorical Question Part Four Semantic Figures of Speech Chapter Twenty-five Metaphor Chapter Twenty-six Simile Chapter Twenty-seven Metonymy Chapter Twenty-eight Synecdoche Chapter Twenty-nine Antonomasia Chapter Thirty Personification Chapter Thirty-one Parody Chapter Thirty-two Synaesthesia Chapter Thirty-three Transferred Epithet Chapter Thirty-four Analogy Part Five Logical Figures of Speech Chapter Thirty-five Epigram Chapter Thirty-six Hyperbole Chapter Thirty-seven Understatement Chapter Thirty-eight Irony Chapter Thirty-nine Euphemism Chapter Forty Paradox Chapter Forty-one Oxymoron Chapter Forty-two Allusion Part Six Application of Figures of Speech Chapter Forty-three Single Application and Comprehensive Application of Figures of Speech References