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Repetition of beginnings
Ex: "Sir Walter Raleigh. Good food. Good cheer. Good times."
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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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Repitition in different senses
Ex: "If you don’t look good, we don’t look good."
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Repitition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order.
Ex:"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us."
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Repitition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition
Ex: "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."
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Omission of conjunctions from clauses
Ex: "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."
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Arrangement by ascending impotance
Ex: "It's a well hit ball, it's a long drive, it might be, it could be, it IS . . . a home run."
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Repitition of ideas in inverted order
Ex:"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." |
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Omission
Ex: "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)
Ex: "Maybe there is a beast. . . . What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us."
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Repitition immediately
Ex:"Give me a break! Give me a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar!"
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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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Repitition of grammatical forms
Ex: "It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking!"
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Addition of conjunctions
Ex: "[I]t is respectable to have no illusions--and safe--and profitable--and dull."
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Ommision of a verb from parallel clauses
Ex: "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
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