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Polysyndeton

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The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions.

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balance sentence

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often similar in structure

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Antithesis

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the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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parenthetical

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clarification

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Zuegma

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use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one

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Parallelism

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repeated pattern

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clause vs phrase

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subject and verb

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periodic

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main point comes at the end of the sentence

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sounds

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Chiasmus

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a reversal in the order of words

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sentence types

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simple, compound, complex, compound-complex

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Epistrophe

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

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statement types

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declarative, imperative, exclamatory, interrogative

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cumulative sentence

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main point is in the middle of the sentence

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anaphora

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

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loose sentence

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main point comes in the beginning of the sentence

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sentence length

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staccato, short, medium, long and involved, telegraphic

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Asyndeton

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omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

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