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Antimetabole

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Ex. " I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better" - A.J Liebling "We didn't land on Plymouth rock; Plymouth rock landed on us" - Malcolm X

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Ellipsis

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In grammar and rhetoric, the omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader

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Parenthesis

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Ex. Billy Bob, a great singer, was not a good dancer

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Consonance

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the repetition of identical or similar consonants sounds in neighboring words.

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Chiasmus

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In rhetoric, a verbal pattern ( type of antithesis) in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed. Essentially the same as antimetabole, but can work on the sentence level all the way up to the structure of an entire piece

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Climax

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Ex. "[ Hester said], this badge hath taught me- it daily teaches me- it is teaching me at this moment- lessons whereof my child may be the wiser and better..." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Epanalepsis

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Ex. " Next time there won't be a next time."

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Hyperbaton

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A figure of speech that uses disruption or inversion of customary word order to produce a distinctive effect; also, a figure in which language takes a sudden turn- usually an interruption.

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Epistrophe

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a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. AKA Epiphora.

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Hyperbaton

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ex. "Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man."

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Isocolon

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A rhetorical term for a succession of clauses or sentences of approximately equal length and corresponding structure. A type of parallelism.

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Chiasmus

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Ex. " Live simply so that others might simply live"

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Polyptoton

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A rhetorical term for repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings.

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Polyptoton

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Ex. "Choosy mothers choose Jif"

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Assonance

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Ex. Men sell wedding bells

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parallelism

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similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. Also called a parallel structure. By convention, items in a series appear in parallel grammatical form: a noun is listed w/ other nouns, an -ing form w/ another -ing form, and so on.

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Polysendeton

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Ex. This semester I am taking English and history and biology and math and sociology and P.E.

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Antithesis

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Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas in balanced phrases

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Anaphora

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Ex. Old Testament (Ecclesiastes 3:1:2) " For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted..."

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Assonance

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The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words.

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Anadiplosis

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repetition of the words or phrase at the end of one sentence, line, or clause at the beginning of the next

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Alliteration

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Ex. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" "Long-lived", "phenomenal freshman", "the fickle finger of fate"

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Epanalepsis

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1) A rhetorical term for the repetition of oa word or phrase at regular intervals; a refrain 2) repetition at the end of a clause or sentence of the word or phrase with which it began: a combo of anaphora and epistrophe

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Symploce

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Ex. "Together, we will make America string again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And yes, together we will make America great again." - Donald Trump

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Epistrophe

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Ex. "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends."

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Asyndeton

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A rhetorical term for a writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses.

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Apposition

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placing side by side two coordinate elements (noun phrases), the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first

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Anastrophe

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" the form divine" "came the dawn" "words between"

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parallelism

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ex. He tried to make the law clear, precise

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Scheme

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A change in the usual order of words for rhetorical effect. Deals with word order, letters, syntax and sounds, whereas trope deals with modifying the meaning of the word.

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Asyndeton

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Ex. I came, I saw, I conquered

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Anastrophe

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In literary style rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as in English, the placing of and adjective after the noun it modifies a verb before its subject or a noun preceding its preposition.nversion is mostly commonly used in poetry in which it may both satisfy the demands of the meter and achieve emphasis.

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Palilogia

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Repetition of the same word, with none between, for vehemence. Synonym for epizeuxis.

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Isocolon

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Ex. (his purpose was) to impress, the ignorant, to perplex, the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous

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Antimetabole

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A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C, C-B-A)

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Polysendeton

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A rhetorical term for the sentence style that employs many conjunctions

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Climax

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In rhetoric, mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and in parallel, construction, with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of an experience or series of events. Similar to auxesis, but with climax, the words or phrases are related, as in

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Anaphora

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A literary or oratorical device involving the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of the several sentences or clauses.

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Anadiplosis

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repetition of the words or phrase at the end of one sentence, line, or clause at the beginning of the next

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Antithesis

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Ex. " That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" - Neil Armstrong

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Consonance

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Ex. "Mike likes his new bike" "And silken sad uncertain rustling"

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Ellipsis

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Ex. I ordered the linguini, and he the lobster

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Symploce

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The combo of anaphora and epistrophe: beginning a series of lines, clauses, or sentences w/ the same word or phrase while simultaneously repeating a different word or phrase at the end of each element in their series.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of the beginning sounds of words

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Apposition

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Ex. "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins" -Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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Parenthesis

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an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage with which it doesn't necessarily have any grammatical connection. Usually marked off by round or square brackets, dashed, or commas.

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