Figures of Construction - List

The most important Figures of speech grouped together as Figures of construction in this course are:

• Hyperbaton
• hysteron proteron
• chiasmus
• parallelism
• zeugma

• • See also, from the group primarily considered as Figures of sound patterning:
    • anaphora
    • Onomatopoeia
    • alliteration
    • antithesis
    • assonance
    • parallelism
    • rhyme
    • sibilance