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metathesis

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transposition of letters in a word.

Elvis lives in evil levis

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antisthecon

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change of sound. A pun is it’s own reword. Hamlet is too much in the sun.

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parallelism

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(scheme of construction: balance) similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

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antithesis

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(scheme of construction: balance) juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often parallel

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Anastrophe

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(Scheme of construction: inverted word order [hyperbaton]) inversion of the natural or usual word order

“Deep into that darkness, peering,

Long I stood there, wondering, fearing.”

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Parenthesis

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(Scheme of construction: inverted word order [hyperbaton]) Insertion of some verbal unit in a place that disrupts the natural syntactical flow of a sentence

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Apposition

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(Scheme of construction: inverted word order [hyperbaton]) placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which explains or modifies the first

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Ellipsis

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(Scheme of Omission) deliberate omission of a word or words readily supplied by context

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Asyndeton

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(Scheme of omission) omission of conjunctions

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Alliteration

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(Scheme of Repetition) repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants in stressed syllables in adjacent words

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Anaphora

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The repetition of the same word or group of words at the start of successive clauses

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epistrophe

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repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses

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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

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Anadiplosis

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repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. The years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind.

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Climax

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arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance

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Antimetabole

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repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

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Chiasmus

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Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses.

Love without end, and without measure grace.

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polyptoton

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repetition of words derived from the same root

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metaphor

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implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common

21
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simile

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explicit comparison

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synecdoche

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a part stands for the whole

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Metonomy

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substitution of some attributive or suggestive word or what is actually meant

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antanaclasis

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repetition of a word in two different senses

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paranomasia

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use of words alike in sound but different in meaning

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syllepsis

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use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs

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Anthimeria

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substitution of one part of speech for another. I’ll unhair thy head.

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Antonomasia

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substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with name. The King of Pop.

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prosopopoeia

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personification

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hyperbole

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the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect

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auxesis

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magnifying the importance or gravity of something by referring to it with a disproportionate name

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litotes

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deliberative use of understatement not to deceive but to enhance the impressiveness of what we say

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erotema

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rhetorical question

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irony

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use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word

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onomatopoeia

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use of word whose sound echos the sense

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oxymoron

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yoking of two terms that are ordinarily contradictory

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paradox

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contradictory statement containing a measure of truth

38
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Isocolon

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similarity not only of structure but of length

39
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epimone

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repetition of phrases

40
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conduplication

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repetition of phrases with other words between each repetition.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy

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diacope

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repetition of phrases with just a few words between the repeated ones

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epizeuxis

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repetition of words consecutively

43
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zeugma

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a word applying to two others in different senses

44
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hysteron-proteron

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first key word of an idea occurs temporally later than the second key word. Put on your socks and shoes.

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praeteritio (paralepsis)

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describing what you will not say.

Have patience gentle friends I must not read it. It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.

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aposiopesis

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leaving a sentence unfinished.

Why you…

47
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matanoia

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correcting oneself.

Let but the commons hear this testament which, pardon me, I do not mean to read – and they would go and kiss dead Caesar’s wounds, and dip their napkins in his sacred blood; yea, beg a hair of him for memory, and, dying, mention it within their wills, bequeathing it as a rich legacy unto their issue.

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hypophora

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asking questions and answering them.

When the enemy struck, on that June day of 1950, what did America do? It did what it always has done in all its times of peril. It appealed to the heroism of its youth.

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prolepsis

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anticipating objections and meeting them

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