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Cards (19)

Section 1

(19 cards)

Ellipsis

Front

an intentional emission of words

Back

Anadiplosis

Front

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

Back

Parallelism

Front

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

Back

Chiasmus

Front

Reversal of grammatical structure in successive phrases or clauses

Back

Polyptoton

Front

Repetition of words derived from the same root

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Apposition

Front

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

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Anastrophe

Front

Inversion of the natural word order

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Alliteration

Front

Repeated consonant sounds

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Parenthesis

Front

Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence

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Polysyndeton

Front

deliberate use of multiple conjunctions

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Asyndeton

Front

Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses

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Isocolon

Front

Use of parallel elements similar not only in structure but in length

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Antithesis

Front

contrast of ideas in parallel structure

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Climax

Front

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

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Assonance

Front

The repetition of vowel sounds

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Epanalepsis

Front

Repetition at the end of a clause of the that occurred at the beginning of yhe clause

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Epistrophe

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Repetition end of phrases or sentence

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Antimetabole

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

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Anaphora

Front

repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect

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