"Shylock: I'll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond!"
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Epanalepsis
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"Blood hath brought blood, and blows have answered blows; Strength match' with strength, and power confronted power."
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Anadiplosis
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Labor and care are rewarded with success, success produces, confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which diligence had raised.
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Parallelism
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"We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
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Anaphora
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"The Lord sitteth above the water floods. The Lord remaineth a King forever. The Lord shall give strength unto his people. The Lord shall give his people the blessing of peace."
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Parenthesis
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"But wherein any man is bold- I am speaking foolishly- I am also bold... Are they ministers do Christ? I- to speak as fool- am more."
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Alliteration
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"A sable, silent, solemn forest stood."
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Polyptoton
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"The Greeks are strong, and skillful to their strength.
Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant."
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Apposition
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"John Morgan, the president of the Sons of the Republic, could not be reached by phone."
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Antimetabole
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"One should eat to live, not live to eat."
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Isocolon
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"His purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous."
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Ellipsis
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"And he to England shall along with you"
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Chisasmus
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"They all believe. So should I?"
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Climax
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"Renounce my love, my life, myself- and you"
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Polysyndeton
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"I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said, 'I don't know who killed him but he's dead all right," and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and boats and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was all right only she was full of water."
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Antithesis
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"Though studious, he was popular; though argumentative, he was modest; though inflexible, he was candid; and though metaphysical, yet orthodox"
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Asyndeton
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"I came, I saw, I conquered."
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Assonance
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"An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying king-
Princes, the dregs of their dull race who flow
Through public scorn- mud from a muddy spring-"