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Words that denote concepts inherent in monumental creative writing, drama, philosophy, and ethics are derived from Vedic-Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic (Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, e.g.), Greek (Homer, Aristotle, Nicomachus [cf: Nicomachean Ethics], Latin, and ancienne noblesse origins.  This vocabulary is derived through classical origins, including The Renaissance Garden of Eloquence (1577) of Henry Peacham who had enumerated 184 different figures of speech  Rhetoric and figures of speech are associated with Aristotle and the Greek tropos of the sustained Hebrew Hallelujah.  The Epic of Gilgamesh...       

accentual meter

accentual-syllabic meter

active voice

a priori

aposteriori

assonance

alliteration

allusion

anacoenosis

anacoluthon

anadipiosis

anaphora

anastrophe

antanaclasis

anthimeria

antiphrasis

antistrophe

antithesis

antonomasia

aphorism

aporia

aposiopesis

apostrophe

archaism

assonance

asyndeton

auxesis

figurative speech

foreshadowing

Freyag's Pyramid

Golden Days

haiku

Halcyon Days

hamartia

Hellenistic period

hendiadys

hermeneia

historic present

Homeric epic

hubris

Hudibras

hypallage

hyperbaton

Hyperbole

hypophora

hysteron-proteron

iamb(ic)

innuendo

invective

invocation

irony

Renaissance

rhetoric

rhetorical question

rondeau

rondel

rhyme royal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ballad

ballade

baroque

brachylogy

limerick

litotes

logos

Sapphic (glukupidron)

scansion

simile

Socratic

Sophist

Spenserian stanza

syllabic

syllepsis

synecdoche

synesthesia

synesis

 

cacophony

canzone

carmen figuration

catachresis

catharsis

chiasmus

choriamb(us)

circumlocution

climax

commiseration

correctio

magnum opus

malapropism

masque

meiosis

metalepsis

metaphor

meter

metonymy

Miltonic stanzas

neologism

Neo-miltonic stanzas

nonce word

onomatopoeia

ontology

ottava rima

oxymoron

tanka

tautology

tercet

theogeny

transferred epithet

tricolon diminuens

tricolon crescens

tropes

truism

villanelle

virelai

voicing

dactylic

denominatio

dénouement

deus ex machina

dodecaphonic

doggerel

parable

paradox

paralepsis

paraprosdokian

paronomasia

passive voice

pathos

pentameter

peripeteia

personification

picaresque

platonic

pleonasm

plot

polysyndeton

praeteritio

prolepsis

proslepsis

waka

zeugma

zoomorphism

envoy

epanorthosis

epic

Epic (or Homeric) Cycle

Epigram

epiphany

Epiphany

epithet

erotema

euphemism

quantitative meter

quatrain

 

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