Parallel elements that are similar in structure and in length.
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Antimetabole
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Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.
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Parallelism
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similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
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Assonance
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Repetition of vowel sounds
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Apposition
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A word or phrase placed next to another word in order to define or identify it
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Anaphora
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the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
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Epanalepsis
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repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning
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Antithesis
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a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
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Epistrophe
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the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
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Parenthesis
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Insertion of verbal unit an a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence, allows the authors voice to be heard commenting or editorializing, thereby charging the statement with emotion.
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Anadiplosis
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repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
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Polysyndeton
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Deliberate use of many conjunctions
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Anastrophe
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Inversion of the natural or usual word order
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Polyptoton
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The repetition of words that come from the same root word.
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Asyntedon
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lack of conjunctions between phrases
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Ellipsis
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in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods
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Climax
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The arrangement of words phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance