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COMMUNICATIO LITERARY OR RHETORICAL FIGURES are classified into 5 groups: 1 . DICTION FIGURES 2 . FIGURES OF ORDER 3 . THOUGHT FIGURES 4 . FIGURES OF MEANING and 5 . PICTURESQUE FIGURES . Thought FIGURES are classified into: 3. 1 Amplification figures 3 . 1 . 1 Expolitio 3 . 1 . 2 Interpretatio 3 . 1 . 3 Paraphrase 3 . 1 . 4 Isodynamics 3 . 2 Accumulation figures 3 . 2 . 1 Enumeration 3 . 2 . 2 E]Distributio 3 2 . 3 Epiphrase 3 . 2 . 4 Epithet 3 . 2 . 5 Tautology 3 . 3 Logical figures 3 . 3 . 1 Antithesis 3 . 3 . 2 Cohabitation 3 . 3 . 3 Paradox 3 . 3 . 4 Oxymoron 3 . 3 . 5 Sorites 3 . 4 Oblique figures 3 . 4 . 1 Periphrases or circumlocution or circumlocution 3 . 4 . 2 Lithets or attenuation 3 . 4 . 3 Pretermission, Preterition or Paralipsis 3. 5 Definition figures 3 . 5 . 1 Definitio 3 . 5 . 2 Prosopography 3 . 5 . 3 Etopeya 3 . 5 . 4 Pragmatography 3 . 5 . 5 Chronography 3 . 5 . 6 Topography 3 . 5 . 7 Portrait 3 . 5 . 8 Self-portrait 3 . 5 . 9 Evidentia 3 . 5 . 10 Demonstratius 3 . 6 Dialogue figures or pathetic figures 3 . 6 . 1 Apostrophe (Invocation) 3 . 6 . 2 Heckling 3 . 6 . 3 Question 3 . 6 . 4 Impreciation or Curse (cursing) 3 . 6 . 5 Execracy (self-weeding) 3. 6 . 6 Rhetoric or rhetorical license 3 . 6 . 7 Opt-in 3 . 6 . 8 Deprecation or Supplication or Obsess or Instance or Request 3 . 6 . 9 License (Permit) 3 . 6 . 10 Threat or Conmination 3 . 7 Dialectical or argumentative figures 3 . 7 . 1 Concession 3 . 7 . 2 Correctio 3 . 7 . 3 Hesitation 3 . 7 . 4 Communicatio 3 . 7 . 5 Conciliatio 3 . 7 . 6 Distinctio or Paradiástole 3 . 6 . 7 Simile 3 . 7 . 8 Argumentum 3 . 7 . 9 Judgment 3 . 7 . 10 Parable (moral message) 3 . 7 . 11 Panegyric (loa) 3. 8 Fictional figures 3 . 8 . 1 Personification or Prosopopeya (humanize) 3. 8 . 2 Sermocinatio 3 . 8 . 3 Idolopeia and 3 . 8 . 4 Subjectio/E] or Percontactio . Communicatio (3. 7. 4) is a dialectical or argumentative figure that presents, for argumentative purposes, two or more possible alternatives of action. It is usually asked as a rhetorical question, addressed or not to the interlocutor.