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Antithesis

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[BALANCE] establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." "Success makes men proud; failure makes them wise"

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Epistrophe

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A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. Also known as an ephanalepsis.. "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't even look at any of my friends and you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends."

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Antimetabole

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A verbal pattern in which the second half of the expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C) (C-B-A). "I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better" "We didn't land on Plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us."

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Anaphora

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Repetition of beginning phrases. e.g. "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France . . ."

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Juxtaposition

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Rhetorical Question

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A question asked merely for the effect with no answer expected. The answer may be obvious or immediately provided by the questioner. "Is the pope catholic? Do bears live in woods?"

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Circumlocution

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Alliteration

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Repetition of a consonant in multiple words. e.g., "buckets of blue berries"

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Parallelism

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When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length.

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Zeugma

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The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of the m or is appropriate to each, but in a different way as in to "wage war and peace", or "on his fishing trip, he caught tree trout and a cold."

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Anastrophe

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In literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as in English, the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies (the form divine), a verb before as subject (came the dawn) or a noun proceeding its preposition (words between). Inversion is most commonly used in poetry in which it may both satisfy the demands of the meter and achieve emphasis.

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Polysyndeton

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Using many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect. e.g., "This term, I am taking biology and English and history and math and music and physics and sociology."

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Asyndeton

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A rhetorical term for a writing style that omits conjunctions between phrases, words, or clauses.

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