| Figure Name | acoloutha |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm) |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | acolouthos |
| Etymology | Gk. acolouthos, "following, attending upon" |
| Type | Trope |
| Linguistic Domain |
Semantic |
| Definition |
1. The substitution of reciprocal words; that is, replacing one word with another whose meaning is close enough to the former that the former could, in its turn, be a substitute for the latter. This term is best understood in relationship to its opposite, anacoloutha. (Silva Rhetoricae) |
| Example | |
| Kind Of | Similarity |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | anacoloutha, figures of substitution |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Ashley Rose Kelly |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | Yes |
| Reviewer | Ashley Rose Kelly |