- antanaclasis - repeating a single word or phrase, but with a different meaning (ex: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo")
- asterismos - a word at the beginning of a sentence (ex: lo, hark, behold, etc) that draws attention to what follows
- antimetabole - a word or a phrase that is repeated in the opposite order in the next clause or phrase (ex: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.")
- contranym - is a word that can mean the opposite of itself (ex: oversight.)
- epeolatry - the worship of words
- epizeuxis - repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence, for vehemence or emphasis
- lethologica - the inability to remember a word or put your finger on the right word
- neologism - a newly coined word.
- palindrome - a word or phrase that is the same forward and backward.
- portmanteau - a word formed from parts of other words.
- spoonerism - the transposition of, usually initial sounds, in a pair of words - oft by accident
- tmesis - when a word or phrase is separated into two parts, with other words interrupting between them (ex: "fan-fucking-tastic.")
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