Anaphora. From the Greek , "I repeat". A succession of sentences beginning with the same word or group of words. Anapodoton. The deliberate omission of a part of a clause, used to imply a specific meaning. Anastrophe. Inversion of the natural word order. Anecdote. A brief narrative describing an interesting or amusing event. Animorum motus. The emotions. Antanaclasis. From Greek ̩, a figure of speech involving a pun, consisting of the repeated use of the same word, each time with different meanings. Antanagoge. Reply with a counter-indictment to an accusation. Anthimeria. Substitution of one part of speech for another (such as a noun used as a verb). It is traditionally called antimeria. Anticlimax. A bathetic collapse from an elevated subject to a mundane or vulgar one. A specialized form of catacosmesis. Antimetabole. Repetition of two words or short phrases, but in reversed order to establish a contrast. It is a specialized form of chiasmus. Antinome ( ). Two ideas about the same topic that can be worked out to a logical conclusion, but the conclusions contradict each other. Antiptosis. The substitution of one case for another. Antistrophe. In rhetoric, repeating the last word in successive phrases. For example (from Rhetorica ad Herennium), "Since the time when from our state concord disappeared, liberty disappeared, good faith disappeared, friendship disappeared, the common weal disappeared." Also see: epiphora. Antithesis. The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, or grammatical structures; the second stage of the dialectic process. Antonomasia. The substitution of an epithet for a proper name. Aphaeresis. The omission of a syllable from the beginning of a word. Apocope. The omission of the last letter or syllable of a word. Apo koinou construction. A blend of two clauses through a lexical word that has two syntactical functions, one in each of the blended clauses. Apophasis / Apophesis. Pretending to deny something as a means of implicitly affirming it. As paralipsis, mentioning something by saying that you will not mention it. The opposite of occupatio. Aporia. A declaration of doubt, made for rhetorical purpose and often feigned. Aposiopesis. An abrupt stop in the middle of a sentence; used by a speaker to convey unwillingness or inability to complete a thought or statement. Apostrophe. From Greek , a figure of speech consisting of a sudden turn in a text towards an exclamatory address to an imaginary person or a thing. Appeals.