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Repetition of beginnings
Ex: We shall fight on the beaches, we shall on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets |
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Arrangement by reversal of order
Ex: Intelligent she was not. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction |
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Repetition in different senses
Ex: we must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separetly |
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Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
Ex: We didn't land on plymputh rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us |
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Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition
Ex: Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing |
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Omission of conjuctions from clauses
Ex: He was a bag of bones, a flopp doll, a broken stick, a maniac |
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Arrangement by ascending importance
Ex: Jeans that can lengthen legs, hug hips and turn heads |
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Repetition of ideas in inverted order
Ex: I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me |
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Omission
Ex: An evil witch, a tap-dancing scare crow, flying monkeys, an emotionally unstable lion, disturbing muchkins |
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Addition by correction (sometimes form parenthesis)
Ex: Thence have I follwed it (or it hath drawn me, rather) but it's gone. |
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Repetition immediately
EX: Strong men also cry, strong men also cry |
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Asking a question to affirm or deny a point
Ex: Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? |
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Reetition of grammatical forms
Ex: Nothing that is beautiful hides its face, Nothing that's honest hides its name |
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Addition of "pop-up" idea
Ex: Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more plausible) |
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Addition of conjuctions
Ex: It is respectab;e to have no illusions and safe - and profitable- and dull |
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Omission of verb from parallel clauses
Ex: You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit |
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