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Alliteration

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Cards (18)

Section 1

(18 cards)

Alliteration

Front

Repetition of consonant sounds

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Isocolon

Front

Parallel elements that are similar in structure and in length.

Back

Antimetabole

Front

Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.

Back

Parallelism

Front

similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Back

Assonance

Front

Repetition of vowel sounds

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Apposition

Front

A word or phrase placed next to another word in order to define or identify it

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Anaphora

Front

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

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Epanalepsis

Front

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

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Antithesis

Front

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else

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Epistrophe

Front

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

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Parenthesis

Front

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

Front

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

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Polysyndeton

Front

Deliberate use of many conjunctions

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Anastrophe

Front

Inversion of the natural or usual word order

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Polyptoton

Front

The repetition of words that come from the same root word.

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Asyntedon

Front

lack of conjunctions between phrases

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Ellipsis

Front

in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods

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Climax

Front

The arrangement of words phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance

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