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Repetition of beginnings
"I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize." |
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Arrangement by reversal of order
"Gracious she was. By gracious I mean full of graces. . . .
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Repetition in differnet senses
"If you don’t look good, we don’t look good."
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Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
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Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition
"One small step for a man, one g
"one small step for a man, one giant leap for all mankind." |
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omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses
"Speed up the film, Montag, quick. Click, Pic, Look, Eye, Now, Flick, Here, There, Swift, Pace, Up, Down, In, Out, Why, How, Who, What, Where, Eh? Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom!" |
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meaning with words arranged in ascending order of force or importance.
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
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omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader.
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." |
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a verbal pattern (a type of antithesis) in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed.
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
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in which a speaker corrects or comments on something he or she has just said.
"Maybe there is a beast. . . . What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us."
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repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis, usually with no words in between.
"I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly |
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Asking a question to affrim or deny a point
"Arent you glad you used Dial? Don't you wish everybody did" |
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Repetition of grammatical forms
"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
A dog (not a cat) is an animal that barks. |
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Addition of conjunctions
"[I]t is respectable to have no illusions--and safe--and profitable--and dull."
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Omission of a verb from parallel clauses
"You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
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