1.) Malapropism: the mistaken substitution for one word for another which sounds similar. Ex.

The doctor wrote a subscription 2.) Maxim: a concise statement often offering advice Ex. Shakespeare To thine own self be true 3.) Metonymy: substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it; a part that used to represent a whole Ex. All hands on deck ; all eyes up here 4.) Motif: a standard theme, element, or dramatic situation that recurs in a literary work Ex. the motif of lightness and darkness in the Scarlet Letter 5.) Non sequitur: an inference that does not follow logically from the premises Ex. None 6.) Oxymoron: an expression of figure of speech in which two words that contradict each other are joined. Ex. bittersweet, scalding ice, raging silence, deathly life 7.) Paradox: an apparently contradictory statement which actually contains some truth. Ex. less is more; good fences make good neighbors; As I am weak, I am strong; Not that you are lost you can be found. 8.) Polysyndeton: a rhetorical name for the stringing together of several phrases or clauses with repeated conjunctions; opposite of asyndeton Ex. None 9.) Surrealism: an artistic movement of the 19th and 20th centuries emphasizing imagination over logic and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions Ex. Edgar Allan Poe The Fall of the House of Usher 10.) Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part is used to describe a whole The crown standing for royal family of Great Britain and White House for U.S. government