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Definition:Repetition of beginnings
Example: John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home. |
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Defintion: Arrangement by reversal of order
Example: A turning back, a turning upside down |
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Definition: Repetition in different senses
Example: The craft of a politician is o appear before the public without craft. |
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Definition: Repetition of a successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
Example: Stop static beofre static stops you. |
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Definition: Repetition of words in contrasting juxtaposition
Example: Give me liberty or give me death. |
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Definition: Omission of conjunctions from clauses
Example: He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self respect. |
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Definition: Arrangement by ascending importance
Example: It's a well hit ball, it might be, could be, it is a home run. |
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Definition: Repetition of ideas in inverted order
Example: He went to the country to the town went she. |
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Definition: Omission
Example: Who are, while I am, or while we are. |
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Definition: Addition by correction (sometimes from parenthesis)
Example: Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not 'seems.' |
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Definition: Repetition immediately
Example: Shots, shots, shots, shots |
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Definition: Asking a question to affirm or deny a point
Example: If practice makes perfect and no one's perfect, then why practice? |
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Definition: Repetition of grammatical forms
Example: It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking. |
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Definition: Addition of "pop-up" idea
Example: Mom dies in an accident (picnic, lightining) when I was three. |
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Definition: Addition of conjunctions
Example: It is respectable to have no illusions- and safe and dull. |
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Definition: Omission of a verb from parallel clauses
Example: Kill the boys, and the luggage. |
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