Stylistic Figures

Biblical figures of speech following E.W. Bullinger’s Figures of Speech Used in the Bible (1898). Bullinger counts 217 figures in three main groups: figures of omission, of addition, and of change.

Published entries

Wave A — Figures Involving Omission

I. Affecting Words

• Apocope — end-cut
• Asyndeton — no-ands
• Zeugma — unequal yoke

II. Affecting the Sense

• Aposiopesis — sudden-silence
• Tapeinosis — demeaning

(5 of 10 Wave A primary figures published on 2026-04-27. Remaining: ellipsis, aphaeresis, meiosis, syllogismus, enthymema.)