the thirty-six figures of rhetoric

• figures of diction (in which the form of words is modified): prosthesis, epenthesis, paragoge, aphaeresis, syncope, apocope, metathesis, diaeresis, synthesis, crasis
  
• figures of construction (which concern the natural order of words): ellipsis, zeugma, syllepsis, hyperbaton, pleonasm
  
• figures of speech (tropes): metaphor, irony, allegory, allusion, catachresis, hypallage, synecdoche, metonymy, euphemism, antomasia, metalepsis, antiphrasis
  
• figures of thought: antithesis, apostrophe, epiphenomenon, subjection, obsecration, hyperbole, litotes, prosopopoeia, hypotyposis