Anaphora

(a-NA-pho-ra)

Repetition of Beginnings

Examples:

In peace, sons bury their father. In war fathers bury their sons.

Anostrophe

(a-NAS-tro-phe)

Arrangement by Reversal of Order

Examples:

Intelligent she was not. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction.

Antanaclasis

(ANT-a-na-CLASS-is)

Repetition in Different Senses

 Examples:

•  If you don't look good, we don't look good.
• If you aren't fired by enthusiam, you will be fired with enthusiam.

Antimetabole

(AN-ti-me-TA-bo-lee)

Repetition of Successive Clauses in Reverse Grammatical Order

Examples:

• We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.
• It's not how old you are, but how you are old.

Antithesis

(an-Ti-the-sis)

Repetition of Words or Ideas in Constrasting Juxtaposition.

Examples:

• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
• Love is a ideal thing, marriage real thing.
• You're easy on the eyes, hard on the heart.

Asyndeton

(a-SYN-de-ton)

Omission of Conjunctions from Clauses

Examples:

• He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac.
• It is a northern country; they have cold weather, they have cold hearts.

Auxesis

(aux-EE-sis)

Arrangement by Ascending Importance

Examples:

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But sad mortality o'er-sways their power. (Sonnet 65, William Shakespares)

Chiasmus

(ki-AZ-mus)

Repetition of Ideas in Inverted Order

Examples:

• Nice to see you, to see you, nice!
• You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
• I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

Ellipsis

(el-LIP-sis)

Omission

Examples:

• Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. (Plato)

Epanorthosis

(EP-a-NOR-tho-sis)

Addition by Correction( Sometimes Form of Parenthesis)

Examples:

Maybe there is a beast.... what I mean is..... maybe it's only us.

Epizeuxis

(EP-i-ZOOK-sis)

Repetition Immediately

Examples:

It's a twister! It's a twister! (Wizard of OZ)

Erotema

(ER-o-TEEM-a)

Asking a Question to Affirm, or Deny a Point

Examples:

• For what can war but endless war still breed?
• Does Jack Palmes ever learn?

Isocolon

(i-so-COL-on)

Repetion of Grammatical Forms

Examples:

It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking.

Parenthesis

(pa-REN-the-sis)

Addition of "Pop-up" Idea

Examples:

Miss Cutbush loved Parentheses.