Devices 7 Flashcards

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Repeating something just said while adding more detail and information to the original description

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Amplification

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Combines anaphora and epistrophe

One word or phrase repeated in beginning and another at the end

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Symploce

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Listing a series of clauses without conjunctions

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Parataxis

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Using more words than necessary to convey meaning; redundant

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Pleonasm

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Repeating the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end

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Epanalepsis

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