Repeat phrases at line beginnings {anaphora}.
Invert word order or omit words {anastrophe}.
Change meaning by changing word position {conditioned}.
Match voiced and unvoiced, or aspirate and inaspirate, sounds {correlation, rhetoric}.
Fuse end vowel and initial vowel {crasis}.
Leave out consonant {ecthlipsis}.
Use unaccented word as part of unaccented preceding word {enclisis}.
Use personal pronoun instead of previous noun {epanalepsis}.
Add sound to word without etymological reason {epenthesis}.
Fill hesitations with syllables or words {hesitation-form}.
Pause between two successive vowels {hiatus, rhetoric}.
Pronounce word by spelling and so pronounce it incorrectly {hyperform}.
Use wrong but similar-sounding words {malapropism}|.
Change word order or word sounds {metathesis}.
Change phonemes to change meaning {opposition}.
Pronounce correctly {orthoepy}.
Articulate or pronounce correctly {orthophony}.
Add to word end for easier pronunciation {paragoge}.
Use grammatically incomplete phrases {pendent, rhetoric}.
Combine two words to make a new shortened word {portmanteau word}.
Add vowel or syllable prefix to word {prothesis}.
Play with words that have two meanings or sounds {pun}|, using homonyms.
Use r sound rather than l or s sound {rhotacism}.
Join or use two words to change meaning {sandhi, rhetoric}.
Have irregular or improper grammatical agreement {syllepsis}.
Put words in jumbled orders {synchysis}.
Drop word middles to make contractions {syncope}.
Link two elements with connecting particle {syndesis}.
Make something grammatical by meaning, rather than by grammar or syntax {synesis}.
Use adjective transferred to nearby noun {transferred epithet}.
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