FICTIONAL FIGURES. Rhetorical FIGURES or LITERARY FIGURES are classified into 5 groups: 1 . FIGURES OF DICTION , 2 . FIGURES OF ORDER 3 . THOUGHT FIGURES 4 . FIGURES OF MEANING and 5 . DESCRIPTIVE FIGURES . In the FIGURES of thought we find 8 subgroups 3 . 1 LITERARY OR RHETORICAL FIGURES1 . DICTION FIGURES 1 . 1 Transformation figures or metaplasms1 . 1 . 1 Anagram ( mez3 . THOUGHT FIGURES3 . 1 Amplification figures3 . 1 . 1 Expolitio3 . 1 . 2 Interpretatio3 . 1 . 3 Paraphrase3 . 1 . 4 Isodynamics3 . 2 Accumulation figures3 . 2 . 1 Enumeration3 . 2 . 2 Distributio3 2 . 3 Epiphrasis3 . 2 . 4 Epithet 3 . 2 . 5 Tautology3 . 3 Logical figures3 . 3 . 1 Antithesis3 . 3 . 2 Cohabitation3 . 3 . 3 Paradox3 . 3 . 4 Oxymoron3 . 3 . 5 Sorites 3 . 4 Oblique figures3 . 4 . 1 Periphrasis or circumlocution or circumlocution3 . 4 . 2 Lithotes or attenuation3 . 4 . 3 Pretermission, Preterition or Paralypse3 . 5 Definition figures3 . 5 . 1 Definitio3 . 5 . 2 Prosopography3 . 5 . 3 Etopeya3 . 5 . 4 Pragmatography3 . 5 . 5 Chronography3 . 5 . 6 Topography3 . 5 . 7 Portrait3 . 5 . 8 Self-portrait3 . 5 . 9 Evidentia3 . 5 . 10 Demonstratio3 . 6 Dialogue or pathetic figures3 . 6 . 1 Apostrophe (Invocation) 3 . 6 . 2 Exclamation3 . 6 . 7 Question 3 . 6 . 8 Imprecation or Curse (cursing) 3 . 6 . 9 Execration (self-cursing) 3 . 6 . 10 Rhetoric or rhetorical license3 . 6 . 11 Opt-in3 . 6 . 12 Deprecation or Supplication or Obsecration or Instance or Request3 . 6 . 13 License ( Permit ) 3 . 7 Dialectical figures ode argumentation 3 . 7 . 1 Concession3 . 7 . 2 Correctio3 . 7 . 3 Hesitation3 . 7 . 4 Communicatio3 . 7 . 5 Conciliatio3 . 7 . 6 Distinctio or Paradyastole 3 . 6 . 7 Simile3 . 7 . 8 Argumentum3 . 7 . 9 Judgment3 . 7 . 10 Parable (moral message) 3 . 7 . 11 Panegyric (loa) 3 . 8 Fictional figures3 . 8 . 1 Personification or Prosopopeya (humanize) 3 . 8 . 2 Sermocinatio3 . 8 . 3 Idolopeya3 . 8 . 4 Subjectio or PercontactioThe subgroup of FIGURES of FICTION consists of 4 cases : 3 . 8 . 1 PROSOPOPEYA, consisting of the humanization of animals and objects, which speak and reason as human beings. 3 . 8 . 2 SERMOCINATION or DIALOGUISM, putting in the mouth of a living character a speech in a way that imitates his style or speaks as if he were addressing himself; or refers to what she or another person or character has said. Examples: The earth says . . why do I sustain it? . . . the water says . . why don't I drown him? . . . the air says . . . why do I give him a strike? . . . the fire says . . why don't I burn him? . . . hell says . . why don't I swallow and torment him? GranadaWhat is poetry? -you say as long as they nailed my pupil your blue pupil. What is poetry? And you ask me? Poetry. . . It's you. Gustavo A . Becquer. 3 . 8 . 3 IDOLOPEYA consists of the ascription of a speech to a dead person, a ghost, an image or an idol. Classic examples of Spanish literature are the words spoken by the late Don Rodrigo in the Coplas for the Death of His Father, by Jorge Manrique. 3 . 8 . 4 SUBJECTIO or PERCONTATIOConsist in the exposition of a fictitious dialogue between the writer and his interlocutor or addressee (it would be, while its ultimate objective is to achieve evidentia, of one of its types). This interlocutor can be himself. For example: Who am I? The master What am I? The light How am I? Divine When am I? Always
