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Polysyndeton

Front

Deliberate use of many conjunctions

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Ellipsis

Front

deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context

Back

Parenthesis

Front

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

Back

Anaphora

Front

repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginning of successive phrases.

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Neologism

Front

creating a new or imaginary word

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Polyptoton

Front

repetition of words derived from the same root

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Anadiplosis

Front

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

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Antimetabole

Front

repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

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Chiasmus

Front

reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses

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Alliteration

Front

repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words

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Epanalepsis

Front

repetition of the same word or words at both beginning and ending of a phrase, clause, or sentence

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Assonance

Front

the repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words

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Prothesis

Front

adding an extra syllable or letters to the beginning of a word

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Anastrophe

Front

the inversion of natural word order, often with the purpose of surprising the reader, gaining attention, or (most often) emphasizing certain words (those at the beginning and the end of the sentence)

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Climax

Front

arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order on increasing importance

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Parallelism

Front

the similar arrangement of a pair or series of related words, phrases, or sentences

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Asyndeton

Front

deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of words, phrases, or clauses

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Antithesis

Front

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, usually in parallel structure

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Isocolon

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is a scheme of parallel structure that occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length (number of words or even number of syllables).

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Epistrophe

Front

repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive phrases

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