He then proceeds to lay out a list of ornaments, each with a name borrowed from the terminology of rhetoric. In the example Burmeister gives, subsequent entries follow the initial statement at the fifth above, at the original pitch level, and at the fourth below. Hypallage occurs when the intervals of the fugue subject are inverted. Mimesis occurs when groups of voices enter in quasi-antiphonal homophony. Auxesis occurs in a period in which the text is repeated above a growing or rising harmony.
Aposiopesis refers to the use of a general pause or silence in all the voices.
Anaploke occurs in antiphonal music proper, when one choir's harmonies are repeated by the other choir, usually at or near a cadence. Palillogia is the repetition of a melodic phrase at a constant pitch level. Klimax refers to the sequential repetition of melodic material at a different pitch level, either higher or lower. Parrhesia occurs when a single dissonance falls in a prominent rhythmic position, usually equivalent to the second half of a beat. Hyperbole occurs when a melody moves up beyond the upper boundary of its mode.