Hypernym

• RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
• RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.

Hyponym

• AISCHROLOGIAANOMIA in the form of use of unacceptable vulgar language. (The vice of) foul speech and swearing. This is sometimes also referred to as cacemphaton. The Vergil commentator Servius currently expostulates: Ecce cacemphaton! when he spots what in Latin corresponds to a four-letter word.This must be distinguished from AMBIGUITAS-OBSCOENA which involved unresolved ambiguity which demonstratively leaves room for an obscene interpretation.
• ANACOLOUTHONANOMIA in the form of a syntactically incoherent sentence. Change of construction in mid-sentence, syntactic incoherence.
• ACYROLOGIAANOMIA or VITIUM in the form of a manifestly and deliberately wrong use of a word.Use of a manifestly wrong word as a deliberate rhetorical device.　Contrast MALAPROPISM which focusses on the maladroit demonstration of lack of proper learning and education precisely through the effort to show off such education or learning.
  • ENALLAGE　錯用詞尾法 ACYROLOGIA in the form of deliberate wrong use of inflections on words.Enallage is the deliberate use of one case, person, gender, number, tense or mood for another.
• ANTHIMERIAANOMIA in the form of the use of an expression in a syntactic/semantic function strikingly different from the current one.
  • ANTHIMERIA-PHRASE　ANTHIMERIA with respect to a complex expression rather than a single word. 詞組活用法 The abnormal use of a whole phrase in a function this phrase does not normally have.
  • ANTHIMERIA-WORD　ANTHIMERIA with regard to a single word.Use of a word or phrase in an ad-hoc derived grammatical funtion which it does not usually have. NB: I am still looking for a useful replacement for the dysfunctional traditional name for this rhetorical device.
• PERIPHRASISANOMIA in which an author uses typically elaborate alternative descrition rather than brief specialised terminology to express a given meaning.
  • ANTONOMASIA　PERIPHRASIS in which an indirectly periphrastic expression is substituted for a proper name. Periphrastic avoidance of a proper name.
  • EUPHEMISMUS　PERIPHRASIS which embellishes a concept so as to avoid inappropriate language.
• APOSIOPESISANOMIA in the form of ELLIPSIS of the last part of a sentence, paragraph or passage.Deliberate act of falling silent in mid-sentence. Also known as RETICENTIA (as opposed to INTERRUPTIO 打斷法 )
  • APOSIOPESIS-SENTENTIAL　APOSIOPESIS of the last part of a paragraph. Falling silent after a subordinate sentence, thus omitting the main clause, ellipsis of a whole clause.Traditionally known by the Greek tongue-breaker "anantapodoton".The protasis (e.g. first part of a conditional clause) is present, but the apodosis (e.g. the second part of an "if ... then" sentence) is absent.
• ARHYTHMIAANOMIA in the context of PARALLELISM in which the repeated rhythm is broken. Breaking of regular rhythm, the converse of ISOCOLON.
  • ARHYTHMIA-MULTIPLE　ARHYTHMIA sustained across several cola/lines.
  • ENJAMBEMENT　ARHYTHMIA in the form of lack of strong caesura at the end of a line in a text with regular line numbers. 接下行法 Continuation of one construction across two lines. See also ENJAMBEMENT-MULTIPLE, and the converse, STACCATO.
    • ENJAMBEMENT-MULITIPLE-ARHYTHMIA-SYNCOPE　多次接下行法﹣字數不整﹣節奏不整
    • ENJAMBEMENT-MULITIPLE-SUBJ/PRED　接下行法 Line-break between subject and predicate of a sentence, the predicate extending over several lines.
    • ENJAMBEMENT-MULTIPLE　多次接下行法
    • ENJAMBEMENT-NPROAD//N　接下行法 ENJAMBEMENT with a line break between an adnominal pronoun and the noun it modifies.
    • ENJAMBEMENT-SUBJ/PRED　接下行法﹣主謂之間 Line-break between subject and predicate of a sentence.
    • ENJAMBEMENT-TOPIC/COMM　接下行法
    • ENJAMBEMENT-VERB/OBJ　接下行法﹣動／賓
    • ENJAMBEMENT+ARHYTHMIA　接下行法﹣節奏不整
    • ENJAMBEMENT+SYNCOPE　幾個四字格連接法﹣分行不整 ENJAMBEMENT in which the line-break is not at a main caesura (syntactic/prosodic break).
  • STACCATO　ARHYTHMIA in the form of the presence of a very heavy caesura within a given line/colon.The presence of two clearly separate clauses or sentences in one line, converse of ENJAMBEMENT.See ARHYTHMIA-INTRA-SENTENTAL
    • STACCATO-ASYMMETRIC　一行兩句法﹣不平橫
  • ARHYTHMIA-INTRALINEAR　[THESE ATTRIBUTIONS AS WELL AS THE RHETORICAL DEVICE CATEGORY MUST BE DELETED: EVERYTHING HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED FOR STACCATO INSTEAD.]
    • ARHYTHMIA-INTRALINEAR-ASYMMETRIC　ARHYTHMIA-INTERLINEAR in which the arhythmic main casura is not in the middle of the line.
  • ARHYTHMIA-TRANSCRIPTION　ARHYTHMIA involving a line containing foreign language transctiptions.
  • ARHYTHMIA-REGULAR　
• ASYNTACTICISMANOMIA in the form of asyntactic juxtaposititon of words to suggest meaning.Asyntactic construction telegram style.
• PARADOXONANOMINA in the form of a statement that is manifestly unacceptable to the intended audience. Deliberately and provocatively contradictory statement, often with a non-contradictory meaning.
• PARENTHESISANOMIA in the form of the insertion of syntactically disconnected sentence into another sentence so as to interrupt the syntactic flow or coherence of the latter. Asyntactic insertion of material A. into a sentence or B. into a passage.
  • TMESIS　PARENTHESIS of word order in which extraneous material intervenes within a given word.
• VITIUMANOMIA or deviation from a norm that is primarily regarded as a vice or as a rhetorical flaw rather than positively as an effective artistic device.
  • OBSCURITAS　VITIUM which consists in the deliberate use of obscure language which makes one's message incomprehensible.
  • KAKOPHONIA　VITIUM consisting in the use of ugly-sounding sequences of words.
  • SOLOECISMUS　VITIUM in the form of non-deliberate wrong use of inflections on words as a sign of ignorance.
    • AFFECTATIO　SOLOECISMUS in the form of maladroit pretentious learnedness.
• HYPALLAGEANOMIA in which an adjective is moved so as to modify a noun which it is not really modifying semantically and similar transpositions of words from their logical place in the structure in which they occur.
• HYPERBATONANOMIA of word order in which extraneous material intervenes on a large scale between two words that are in construction with each other. 插入法 The interposition between two words that grammatically belong together, of material that does not belong into this construction.
• INTERRUPTIOANOMIA in which an interlocutor interrupts the speaker in mid-sentence.
• ABUSIOANOMALIA in the form of improper or extended use of a word in a meaning deviating from its basic meaning. Also called catachresis in Latin. Greek: katachrēsis. This category is of great philosophical importance, because it is the source of conceptual extention of meaning in the lexicon.
• VOSSIAN-PROPER NAME專名泛指法 The use of a proper name as a generic noun.