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Repitition of beginnings
Example:
"I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off." |
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Arrangement by reversal of order
Example:
"Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. . . . This one a long time have I watched. . . . Never his mind on where he was." |
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Repitition in different senses
Example:
"People on the go . . . go for Coke." |
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Repitition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
Example:
"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us."
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Repitition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition
Example:
"Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee." |
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Omission by breaking off suddenly in the middle of speaking
Example:
"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." |
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Arrangement by ascending importance
Example:
"Jeans That Can Lengthen Legs Hug Hips & Turn Heads" |
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Repitition of ideas in inverted order
Example:
"Nice to see you, to see you, nice!" |
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Omission
Example:
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." |
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Addition by correction (sometimes form of parenthesis)
Example:
"I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do." |
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Repitition immediately
Example:
"I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly." |
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Asking a question to affirm or deny a point
Example:
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?" |
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Repitition of grammatical forms
Example:
"I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, we're a Pepper-- Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper!" |
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Addition of "pop-up" idea
Example:
"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three." |
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Addition of conjunctions
Example:
"Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness." |
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Omission of a verb from parallel clauses
Example:
"Kill the boys and the luggage!" |
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