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Section 1

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Antithesis

Front

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure

Back

Alliteration

Front

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Back

Climax

Front

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

Back

Asyndeton

Front

omission of conjunctions between a series

Back

Parenthesis

Front

An insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence.

Back

Apposition

Front

renaming or redefining a subject using commas

Back

Antimetabole

Front

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

Back

Assonance

Front

Repetition of vowel sounds

Back

Anastrophe

Front

Inversion of the natural or usual word order

Back

Parallelism

Front

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

Back

Epistrophe

Front

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

Back

Polysyndeton

Front

Deliberate use of many conjunctions

Back

Anadiplosis

Front

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

Back

Anaphora

Front

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

Back

Ellipsis

Front

omission of word(s) implied in the context

Back

Polyptoton

Front

repetition of words derived from the same root

Back

Epanalepsis

Front

repetition of words at the beginning and end of a clause

Back

Isocolon

Front

Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length

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