Alliteration
Succession of words with the same initial sounds "Lay like a load on my weary eye" (Phonological Figure)
Anadiplosis
Repetition of the end of the preceding line at the beginning of the next "And gentle wish long subdued/Subdued and cherished long" (Morphological Figure)
Anaphora
Repetition of a word or clause at the beginning of successive lines "Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,/Some in their wealth..." (Morphological Figure)
Antithesis
Juxtaposition of two logically opposed elements "By force to ravish, or by fraud betray" (Semantical Figure)
Apostrophe
Addressing an absent person or personified object "O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being" (Pragmatic Figure)
Archaism
Use of old words "There was a shi,' quoth he" (Morphological Figure)
Assonance
Congruence of vowels "Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay" (Phonological Figure)
Asyndeton
Unusual omission of conjunctions "All whom war, death, age agues, tyannies,despair..." (Syntactical Figure)
