How to sign: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
Categories: device
Within this category: anacoluthia, anastrophe, antinomasia, antiphrasis, antithesis, apophasis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, catachresis, chiasmus, climax, conversion, ecphonesis, emphasis, enallage, epanorthosis, epiplexis, hendiadys, hypallage, hyperbaton, hypozeugma, hypozeuxis, hysteron proteron, litotes, onomatopoeia, paralepsis, paregmenon, polysyndeton, prolepsis, repetition, trope, wellerism