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Exact Match:
- anastrophe
- the reversal of the normal order of words
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- palindrome
collapse - a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward related words >
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anagram,
- anastrophe,
- calembour,
- chiasmus,
- corruption,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hysteron proteron,
- jeu de mots,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malapropism,
- metagram,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- missaying,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- play on words,
- pun,
- punning,
- spoonerism,
- synchysis,
- tmesis,
- wordplay
- parenthesis
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- either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material related words >
- anastrophe,
- aside,
- broken thread,
- brokenness,
- chiasmus,
- disconnectedness,
- disconnection,
- discontinuance,
- discontinuation,
- discontinuity,
- discontinuousness,
- discreteness,
- disjunction,
- episode,
- fitfulness,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hysteron proteron,
- incoherence,
- incompleteness,
- infix,
- injection,
- insert,
- insertion,
- insinuation,
- intercalation,
- interjection,
- interlineation,
- interlocution,
- intermittence,
- interpolation,
- introduction,
- irregularity,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- non sequitur,
- noncontinuance,
- nonlinearity,
- nonseriality,
- nonuniformity,
- obiter dictum,
- palindrome,
- remark,
- side remark,
- synchysis,
- tmesis,
- tossing-in
- adornment,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- beauties,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- colors,
- colors of rhetoric,
- conversion,
- ecphonesis,
- elegant variation,
- embellishment,
- embroidery,
- emphasis,
- exclamation,
- figure,
- fine writing,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- frill,
- gemination,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- inversion,
- irony,
- litotes,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- malapropism,
- meiosis,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- onomatopoeia,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- oxymoron,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- purple patches,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- zeugma
- hysteron proteron
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- the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved
- reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born') related words >
- anastrophe,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- arsy-varsiness,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- chiasmus,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- clutter,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- empty words,
- fallacy,
- farrago,
- formal fallacy,
- hash,
- helter-skelter,
- higgledy-piggledy,
- hodgepodge,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- insincere argument,
- jumble,
- litter,
- logical fallacy,
- material fallacy,
- mere rhetoric,
- mess,
- metastasis,
- metathesis,
- mishmash,
- moonshine,
- non sequitur,
- palindrome,
- paralogism,
- parenthesis,
- petitio principii,
- philosophism,
- pseudosyllogism,
- scramble,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- sophistry,
- synchysis,
- tmesis,
- topsy-turviness,
- topsy-turvydom,
- tumble,
- turmoil,
- unholy mess,
- verbal fallacy,
- weak point,
- welter
- metastasis
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- the spreading of a disease to another part of the body related words >
- anastrophe,
- avatar,
- catabolism,
- catalysis,
- chiasmus,
- communication,
- conduction,
- consubstantiation,
- contagion,
- convection,
- delivery,
- deportation,
- diapedesis,
- diffusion,
- displacement,
- dissemination,
- export,
- exportation,
- expulsion,
- extradition,
- heterotopia,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hysteron proteron,
- import,
- importation,
- interchange,
- metabolism,
- metagenesis,
- metamorphism,
- metamorphosis,
- metathesis,
- metempsychosis,
- migration,
- mutant,
- mutated form,
- mutation,
- mutual transfer,
- osmosis,
- palindrome,
- parenthesis,
- passage,
- passing over,
- perfusion,
- permutation,
- reincarnation,
- sport,
- spread,
- spreading,
- synchysis,
- tmesis,
- transanimation,
- transduction,
- transfer,
- transfer of property,
- transference,
- transfiguration,
- transfigurement,
- transformation,
- transformism,
- transfusion,
- transit,
- transition,
- translation,
- translocation,
- transmigration,
- transmigration of souls,
- transmission,
- transmittal,
- transmittance,
- transmogrification,
- transmutation,
- transplacement,
- transplantation,
- transposal,
- transposition,
- transubstantiation,
- travel
- malapropism
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- the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- anagram,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- barbarism,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- conversion,
- corruption,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exclamation,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- gemination,
- grammatical error,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- infelicity,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jeu de mots,
- litotes,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- marrowsky,
- meiosis,
- metagram,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- onomatopoeia,
- oxymoron,
- palindrome,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- play on words,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pun,
- punning,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- ungrammaticism,
- wordplay,
- zeugma
- simile
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- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- exclamation,
- gemination,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- regression,
- relation,
- repetition,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- semblance,
- similarity,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- trope of comparison,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- metaphor
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- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity related words >
- accordance,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogue,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- change,
- changeling,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- fake,
- figure of speech,
- fill-in,
- gemination,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- image,
- imagery,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- reference,
- regression,
- relation,
- relief,
- repetition,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- spoonerism,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- syllepsis,
- symbol,
- symbolism,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- trope,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- speech
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- (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
- the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
- something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches" related words >
- ESP,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- alliteration,
- allocution,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- answer,
- answering,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- blast,
- bull session,
- catachresis,
- chalk talk,
- chiasmus,
- chinfest,
- choice of words,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- commerce,
- communicating,
- communication,
- communicational,
- communion,
- communional,
- composition,
- confab,
- confabulation,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- conversational,
- converse,
- conversion,
- correspondence,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- debate,
- declamation,
- dialect,
- dialogue,
- diatribe,
- diction,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- duologue,
- ecphonesis,
- elocution,
- emphasis,
- enunciated,
- enunciation,
- eulogy,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- exhortation,
- expression,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- formulation,
- funeral oration,
- gemination,
- grammar,
- harangue,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- idiom,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- information,
- interacting,
- interaction,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunion,
- intercommunional,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- interresponsive,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- invective,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jargon,
- jeremiad,
- language,
- langue,
- lecture,
- line,
- lingo,
- lingua,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linguistic intercourse,
- litotes,
- locution,
- malapropism,
- meiosis,
- message,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- nuncupative,
- onomatopoeia,
- oral,
- oral communication,
- oration,
- oxymoron,
- palaver,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parlance,
- parley,
- parol,
- parole,
- pep talk,
- periphrasis,
- peroration,
- personal usage,
- personification,
- philippic,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- pitch,
- pleonasm,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pronounced,
- public speech,
- question-and-answer session,
- questioning,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- regression,
- repetition,
- reply,
- response,
- responsive,
- rhetoric,
- said,
- sales pitch,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- sarcasm,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- set speech,
- simile,
- similitude,
- social intercourse,
- song and dance,
- sounded,
- speaking,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- spoken,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- talkfest,
- talking,
- telepathic,
- telepathy,
- tirade,
- tongue,
- touch,
- traffic,
- transmissional,
- trialogue,
- truck,
- two-way communication,
- unwritten,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- utterance,
- uttered,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- verbal,
- verbalization,
- verbiage,
- vernacular,
- viva voce,
- vocal,
- vocalization,
- vocalized,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiceful,
- voicing,
- wordage,
- wording,
- words,
- zeugma
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