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FOS Code	Figure	English Name	Category	Definition	Emphasis	Notes
ALEG	Allegory	Allegory	Illustration	Continued comparison by representation or implication	Points of comparison	Allegory is a broader term in Semitic languages. It is rather what we would call an “illustration” or “incident”
ANBS	Anabasis	Gradual Ascent	Rhetoric	An increase of sense in successive sentences	The logic of the sentences
ANCL	Anacoluthon	Non-Sequence	Rhetoric	A breaking off the sequence of thought	The new pronoun	Beginning of the change of pronoun is important to note
ANDP	Anadiplosis	Like Sentence Endings and Beginnings	Repetition	The repetition of the same word or words at the end of one sentence and at the beginning of another	Most important words
ANAE	Anaeresis	Detraction	Parentheses	A parenthetic addition complete in itself, a detraction by a negative expression	The positive opposite	The negative appears to take something away but really is adding to it (Cf. Tapeinosis)
ANAP	Anaphora	Like Sentence-Beginnings	Repetition	Repetition of the same word at the beginning of successive sentences	Calls special attention to statements and arguments
ANTC	Antanaclasis	Word-Clashing	Repetition	Repetition of the same word in the same sentence, with different meanings	1st meaning used is more important	Homonym – same word has more than one usage (e.g., sin)
ANTH	Anthropopatheia	Condescension	Meaning	The ascribing of human attributes to God	God’s diversity and greatness	Hebrew name is Derech Benai Adam, “the way of the sons of man”
ANTM	Antimeria	Exchange of Parts of Speech	Meaning	The exchange of a noun for an adjective or adverb	The changed word	The second noun is the adjective
ANTS	Antiprosopopeia	Anti-Personification	Illustration	Persons represented as inanimate things	Characteristics of a person
FOS Code	Figure	English Name	Category	Definition	Emphasis	Notes