Repetition Flashcards
1
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Alliteration
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Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.
2
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Assonance
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.
3
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Chiasmus
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Two corresponding pairs arranged in a parallel inverse order.
‘Fair is foul, foul is fair’
4
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Epistrophe
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Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.
5
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Epanalepsis
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Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause
‘Blood hath brought blood’
6
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Hyperbaton
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Altering word order, or separation of words that belong together, for emphasis.
‘Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall’
7
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Ploce
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The repetition of a single word for rhetorical emphasis.
