Pamphlet (L. pamphilius)-  a small- size booklet, a publicist genre.

Panegyric (Gr. panegyricos, meeting) – a solemn praising speech.

Paradox (Gr. para, not correct, dox, opinion) - a statement containing a contradiction, its interpretation  results in ambiguity or   polysemantic interpretation: Wine costs money, blood does not cost anything \ B. Shaw.

Parallelism (Gr. parallelos, attending, accompanying) - a syntactical stylistic device, based on similarity of constructions, in the neighbouring or correlated context, bringing in  a combination of words and sentences, equivalent, complimentary or opposed in sense \ as a rule, the term ”syntactical parallelism” is used \; a compositional device based on topical repetition or dubbing a  plot development  line in  a work of art / the story by O` Henry "The Roads We Take”

Paronomasia  - similarity in sounding of contextually connected words, e.g. raven – raving -  ravin’ – never.

Parenthesis (Gr. parantithenai, insert)- a inserted word, sentence, explanatory or characterizing, a syntactical insertion.

Parcellation- a syntactical expressive stylistic device, graphic and syntactic separation due to which a  syntactical construction becomes formally independent.

Parody- (Gr. para, incorrectness, dia, song) - an artistic satiric imitation genre, aimed at implicit evaluation, semantically a complex interaction of explicit and implicit textual structures.

Pasquinade (It. pasquillo) is a satiric publicist genre, often a spiteful or insulting work of literature, contrasted  to  poetry.

Periphrasis – a phrase or a sentence, substituting one word; logical, euphemistic and figurative periphrases.

Personification (Lat. persona) a stylistic device, nomination, when a name of an animate thing is given to an inanimate object  for the sake of expressiveness, figurativeness, intensification, emotions: Love is not Time’s fool. 

Plot (L.fabula, narration)  -  narrative development of the text .

Polysyndeton -  repetition of conjunctions and connecting elements in a complex syntactical structure

Prologue (L. pro before, logos, and speech) – an   introductory part of a literary work.

Prosody (Gr. prosoidia) is a system of the phonetic language means, including intonation, stress, timbre, rhythm, tempo, pauses, also metre, rhyme in the poetic works.

Proverb is a short epigrammatic statement, expression,  ascertaining definite rules or regulations.

Pun (It. puntiglio) - comic playful use of a word or a phrase based on semantic ambiguousness, polysemy: There isn’t a single man in the hotel

Represented Speech - a style of narration presenting words and thoughts of a character in the name of  the author; in contrast to direct or indirect speech characteristics of grammatical or formal differentiation no identification of a  change of communicative roles of an author or a character is given.

Rhythm (Gr. Rhythmos) as  recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables as well as  repetition of images, notions, connotations; phonetic repetitions as the basis of rhythm in poetry,  syntax as the basis of rhythm in prose.

Rhetorical question - a stylistic syntactic device, a question in form, not demanding an answer, a statement in contents.

Rhyme is sound repetition (full or partial) in the ultimate positions of a poetic line

Rhyming - a stylistic device of sound or word repetition in the end of poetic lines or their relatively complete rhythmical parts.

Romance –a story or a novel of adventure, a love story.

Saga (O.N. saga, narration) - originally ancient Iceland or ancient Norway epos, presenting historical and mythological and later on British  knight tales.

Satire (L. satira, satura) - a comic literary work aimed at the exposure and criticism of social vices.

Semantically false chain -  a semantically alien  element in a chain of elements, imposing a second contextual meaning on the central word.

Short Story (It. novella)- a short  prosaic work, a genre of literature characterized by the unity of a plot, style, etc.

Simile  - an imaginative comparison, introduced by the conjunctions as...as, like, as if,  as though, and disguised metaphors by  the verbs "to seem”, "to recollect”, " to resemble”, "to remind".

Sonnet (It. sonetto) -  a poetic work of 14 lines, which consists of an octet (8 lines) and sextet (6 lines), employing iambus, and pentameter.

Story - a narrative genre of imaginative, miraculous world of fancy.

Stylization (Fr. pastiche, It. pasiccio) - pastiche, imitating literary genre, the aim of which is literary mystification, appraisal, and interpretation of euphonic parameters of a work of art.

Summary (Fr. precis) – brief presentation of the  contents of a literary or publicist text, concise in form, language

 compression as a basic compositional principle.

Suspense ( the effect of deceived expectancy) -  the effect of  tense anticipation  created by the quality of predictability created  by  different  devices, e.g. separation of the subject and the predicate, introduction of a parenthesis, etc.,  the device contrary to the effect of replenished expectancy.

Symbol 

Tale (O. Fr. lai) -  a poem of narrative character, often for song rendering.

Transposition – the use of a certain language form in the function of some other language form. Syntactic transposition: e.g. the use of one communicative type of the sentence in the function of another

Tropes ( from Greek  tropos – a  turn,  ‘a turn of speech’. a phrase) - stylistic devices, as a rule composed on the

specific language models (allegory, allusion, antonomasia, epithet, hyperbole, irony, litotes, metaphor, metonymy,

oxymoron, periphrasis, personification, simile, synecdoche, zeugma).

Violation ( decomposition) of phraseological units – intentional decomposition of the formal characteristics or idiomaticity of phraseological units, e.g. Little Jon was born with a silver spoon in his mouth which was rather curly and large.

Zeugma (Gr. Zeugma, yoke)- the use of a word in the position of grammatical dependence on two elements, due to which different meanings of the word are revealed: Everything was common here: opinions, the table and tennis rackets.