Anaphora

A rhetorical term for the repition of a phrase at the begining of a clause

"It rained on his lousy tombstone, it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place"

Anastrophe

A rhetorical term for the inversion of convential word order

"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."

Antanaclasis

A type of verb play in which one word is used in two contrasting and often comic sense

"Peaople on the go...go for Coke"

Antimetabole

Verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the words in reverse grammatical order.

"In Soviet Russia, car drives you."

Antithesis

A rhetorical term for the juxaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases or clauses

"Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee."

Asyndeton

Rhetorical term for writing style that omits conjuctions between words, phrase, or clauses

"Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That--that's about it."

Auxesis

Exagerating

"Look at this wound!!!" (At a scratch)

Chiasmus

In rhetoric, verbal pattern the second alf of expression is placed with the first half

"I flee who chases me and chase who flees me"

Ellipsis

In grammar rhetoric, the ommision of one of more words in whiwch must be supplied by listener

"True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love."

Epanorthosis

A figure of speech speaker corrects or commens on something he or she said.

"You don't think we're being . . . I don't want to say 'sleazy,' because that's not the right word, but a little irresponsible, maybe?"

Epizeuxis

Repetition immediately

"I love scotch, scotchy, scotch, scotch. There it goes down, down into my belly."

Erotema

Question asked merely for effect with no answered expected

"Aren't you glad you used Dial? Don't you wish everyone did?"

Isolcolon

Repitition of grammatical forms

"I'm a pepper, you're a peper, he's a pepper, wouldn't you like to be a pepper?" (Dr. Pepper)

Parenthesis

Addition of pop up idea

"The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation."

Polsyndeton

Addition of conjunctions

"It's respectable to have no illusions and safe and profitable and dull."

Zeugma

Ommsion of a verb from parallel clauses

"He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men."