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Cards (14)

Section 1

(14 cards)

alliteration

Front

repetition of consonant in multiple words

Back

epistrophe

Front

repetition of words or phrases at the end of a clause

Back

climax

Front

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

Back

anastrophe

Front

the 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

anadiplosis

Front

repeating the last word as the beginning of the next clause

Back

ellipsis

Front

omitting a word implied by the previous clause

Back

assonance

Front

repetition of vowel sounds

Back

apposition

Front

placing side by side two coordinate elements the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first

Back

polysyndeton

Front

adding conjunctions to create slowness or emphasis

Back

antimetabole

Front

repetition of words in succeeding clauses in reverse syntactic order (mirror)

Back

antithesis

Front

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas often in parallel structure

Back

asyndeton

Front

omission of conjunctions to create effective speed and simplicity

Back

anaphora

Front

repeating of beginning clause in successive clauses

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