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parallelism

Front

Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other

Back

asyndeton

Front

omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Back

Epanalepsis example

Front

"Nothing is worse than doing nothing."

Back

chiasmus

Front

A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed

Back

epistrophe example

Front

and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, -

Back

assonance

Front

Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity

Back

climax

Front

writer arranges ideas in order of importance

Back

anaphora

Front

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Back

cacophony

Front

A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

Back

euphony

Front

pleasant, harmonious sound

Back

alliteration

Front

the occurrence of the same sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Back

Parenthesis Example

Front

He said it was going to rain (I could hardly disagree) before the game was over.

Back

polysyndeton

Front

the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural and Deliberate use of many conjunctions

Back

epistrophe

Front

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

Back

zeugma

Front

use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings

Back

consonance

Front

Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.

Back

Parenthesis

Front

insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence

Back

anadiplosis

Front

repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

Back

anastrophe

Front

Inversion of the natural or usual word order

Back

zeugma example

Front

He lost his coat and his temper.

Back

Anastrophe example

Front

"Excited the children were when Santa entered the room"

Back

chiasmus example

Front

"Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You."

Back

Epanalepsis

Front

repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause

Back