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A collective term in rhetoric for all kinds of striking or unusual configurations of words or phrases. The variation can affect all units of the linguistic system (graphic, phonological, morphological. syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic patterns) and...

In Austin’s speech act theory (1962), a part of every speech act that comprises the articulation of linguistic forms (phonetic act), the production of words and strings of words in a particular grammatical order (phatic act) and the reference to...

The double play of varying sound and contrasting meaning in many aphorisms is achieved through the use of polyptoton: Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism (Pascal). The rhetorical repetition of a word with...

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A figure of speech, sometimes termed a rhetoric, or locution, is a word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language. Figures of speech are often used and crafted for emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. However, clarity may...