1.Alliteration 頭韻 heart,home
2.Assonance 元韻 late,make
3.Consonance 輔韻 sing,rang
4.Onomatopoeia 擬聲 The stream murmursthrough the woods.
5.Aposiopesis 跳脫「You』d better do this or else…」
6.Apostrophe 呼語 Captain!my captain!rise up and hear the bells:
7.Pun 雙關ball:(1)any round or spherical object (2)a formal social dance
8.Repetition 重複 The rain pours and pours.
9.Anaphora 首語重複法 Light come,light go.
10.Epiphora 句末重複法 Waste not,want not.
11.Simploce 首結語重複法This is the world’s fight,This is civilization’s fight.
12.anadiplosis 頂針 With Bewick on my knee,I was then happy:happy at least in my way.
13.Parallelism 平行結構 The young actor was tall,dark,and handsome.
14.Antithesis 對偶Marriage is easy,housekeeping is hard.
15.Climax 層進法We want peace,we want freedom,we want a better life.
16.Anticlimax 突降法Where shall I find hope,happiness,friends,cigarettes?
17.Syllepsis 一語雙敘He lost his coat and his temper.
18.Zeugma 軛式修辭法We ate a bun and a glass of milk.
19.Chiasmus 回文 One should eat to live,not live to eat.
20.Asyndeton 連詞省略法 Nothing is insider them,they were sealed up before the creation of pestilence.
21.Polysyndeton 連詞疊用法I am a soul.or a body, a mind.
22.Rhetorical question 反問 Isn’t it the best choice?
23.Simile 明喻 Time flies like an arrow.
24.Metaphor 暗喻You are my sunshine.
25.Metonymy 借喻 He has a good ear for music.
26.Synecdoche 提喻He paid the workers $5 per head.
27.Antonomasia 換稱Hitler---a tyrant
28.Personification 擬人The bird is singing joyfully.
29.Parody 仿擬 I had no outlook,but an uplookrather.
30.Synesthesia 通感The music breathing from her face.
31.Transferred epithet 移情a sleepless bed