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Anaphora

Front

Repettion of the first part of a sentence in successive phrases or sentences Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered

Back

Pleonasm

Front

Using too many words, redundancy of expression Ex: burning fire, wet rain

Back

Polysyndeton

Front

Overuse of conjunction for dramatic effect Ex: the woods were ferocious and dark and deep

Back

Asyndeton

Front

Absence of conjunction for dramatic effect Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered

Back

Consonance

Front

Repetition of the same consonants sound 2 or more times in close succession Ex: puRple cuRtain

Back

Isocolon

Front

Phrases of equal length, meter, and sound in close succession Ex: by the people, of the people, and for the people Or I came, I saw, I conquered

Back

Parenthesis

Front

The use of parenthesis, brackets, or ellipse to give extra information Ex: I went to the mall (what a sweet time that is) to go to Best Buy

Back

Alliteration

Front

Repetition of same sound at the BEGINNING of 2 or more close sounding words Ex: Bob built burgers by the bay

Back

Anadiplosis

Front

Repetition of word at the end of a sentence and the beginning of a sentence Ex: he went to the mountain, the mountain went to the sea

Back

Apposition

Front

2 words or phrases placed beside each other such that 1 describes or defines the other Ex: John, a circus clown, scared the little children

Back

Assonance

Front

Repitition of the same vowel sound 2 or more times in close succession Ex: pUrple cUrtain

Back

Parallelism

Front

Sentence components are similar in construction, sound, meaning, or meter She was singing, breathing, and running

Back

Anastrophe

Front

Inversion of natural word order Ex: Yoda talking: "surrender you must"

Back

Climax

Front

An arrangement of word, phrases, or clauses in ascending importance Ex: she shouted her love from the taxi cab, then the streets, then the mountain tops

Back

Antithesis

Front

When 2 contrasting clauses in parallel structure create an ironic idea Ex: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Back

Polyptoton

Front

Repetition of same root word in multiple forms throughout a sentence Ex: Nobody makes me bleed my own blood.

Back

Chiasmus

Front

Second half of the sentence is inverted Ex: ABBA(band) or ask not what your country can but what you can do for your country

Back

Spoonerism

Front

Comedic swap of first letters of successive words Ex: Runny Babbit

Back