Hypernym

• RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
• RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.

Hyponym

• APHAERESISMETAPLASMUS or ELLISPSIS in the form of omission of a syllable from the beginning of a word, as 'twixt for betwixt.
• DISTORTIO換音押韻法 The exchange of one sound for another for the sake of rhyme., as wrang for wrong. Known in Renaissance textsbooks as ANTISTHECON.
• FUSIO演接交錯法 The fusion of two preceding phrases into one succeding phrase, typically combining two transitive verbs into one compound verb and their two objects into a noun compound.
• NEG-RAISINGMETAPLASMUS in which a negation is moved from its logical position in the phrase higher up in the syntactic tree, as for example in 勿使 "cause not to" and in the English "I don't believe he will come".
• ADVERB-RAISINGMETAPLASMUS in which an adverb is moved from its logical position in the phrase higher up in the syntactic tree, as for example in 常當 "one should always".
• INVERSIOMETAPLASMUS in the form of inversion of expected word order.
  • INVERSIO-HYSTEROPROTERON　語義倒文法 Inversion of time sequence, the deliberate mentioning of a later event before an earlier event in a sentence.
  • POSTPOSED RELATIVE CLAUSE UNMARKED　詞後加修飾句法 INVERSIO in the form of a postposed modification. 釋名 : 人始生曰嬰兒 "A human who has just been born is called a baby" is a characteristic example. Note that what is said to be a baby is not the birth, or the fact of having just been born.
  • REVERSIO　INVERSIO in the form of the interchange of grammatical roles, typically the subject becoming object and the object subject.
  • ARSIS-AND-THESIS-INVERTED　Inverted ARSIS-AND-THESIS in which the dismissal comes last. ARSIS-AND-THESIS where the dismissed view is stated last, not first.