“ELLIPSIS is the omission of some word or words which are necessary to complete the construction, but not requisite to complete the sense.”—­Adam, Gould, and Fisk, cor. “PLEONASM is the insertion of some word or words more than are absolutely necessary either to complete the construction, or to express the sense.”—­Iid. cor. “HYSTERON-PROTERON is a figure in which that is put in the former part of the sentence, which, according to the sense, should be in the latter.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “HYSTERON-PROTERON is a rhetorical figure in which that is said last, which was done first.”—­Webster cor. “A BARBARISM is a foreign or strange word, an expression contrary to the pure idiom of the language.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “A SOLECISM is an impropriety in respect to syntax, an absurdity or incongruity in speech.”—­Iid. cor. “An IDIOTISM is a manner of expression peculiar to one language childishly transferred to an other.”—­Iid. cor. “TAUTOLOGY is a disagreeable repetition, either of the same words, or of the same sense in different words.”—­Iid. cor. “BOMBAST, or FUSTIAN, is an inflated or ambitious style, in which high-sounding words are used, with little or no meaning, or upon a trifling occasion.”—­Iid. cor. “AMPHIBOLOGY is ambiguity of construction, phraseology which may be taken in two different senses.”—­Iid. cor. “IRONY is a figure in which one means the contrary of what is said.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “PERIPHRASIS, or CIRCUMLOCUTION, is the use of several words, to express what might be said in fewer.”—­Iid. cor. “HYPERBOLE is a figure in which a thing is magnified above the truth.”—­Iid. cor. “PERSONIFICATION is a figure which ascribes human life, sentiments, or actions, to inanimate beings, or to abstract qualities.”—­Iid. cor. “APOSTROPHE is a turning from the tenor of one’s discourse, into an animated address to some person, present or absent, living or dead, or to some object personified.”—­Iid. cor. “A SIMILE is a simple and express comparison; and is generally introduced by LIKE, AS, or so.”—­G.  B., Inst., p. 233; Kirkham cor.; also Adam and Gould.  “ANTITHESIS is a placing of things in opposition, to heighten their effect by contrast.”—­Inst., p. 234; Adam and Gould corrected.  “VISION, or IMAGERY, is a figure in which what is present only to the mind, is represented as actually before one’s eyes, and present to the senses.”—­G.  B.; Adam cor. “EMPHASIS is a particular stress of voice laid on some word in a sentence.”—­Gould’s Adam’s Gram., p. 241.  “EPANORTHOSIS, or CORRECTION, is the recalling or correcting by the speaker, of what he last said.”—­Ibid. “PARALIPSIS, or OMISSION, is the pretending