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Repetition of beginnings
"I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize."
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Arrangement by reversal of order
"Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear" |
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Repetition in different senses
"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!" |
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Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammaical order
"Eat to live, not live to eat." |
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Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxaposition
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." |
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Omission of conjunctions from 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." |
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Arrangementby ascending importance
"Its a bird.... Its a plane.... Its Superman!" |
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Repetition of ideas in inverted order
"I mean what i say and i say what i mean" |
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Omission
"I never drink.... Wine" |
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Addition by Correction
"Thousands! No Millions" |
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Repetition immeadiatley
"O, horror, horror, horror" |
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Asking a question to affirm or deny a point
"Can I ask a rhetorical question? Well, can I?" |
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Repetition of grammatical forms
"I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, we're a Pepper-- Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper!" |
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Addition of a "pop up" idea
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation." |
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Addition of conjunctions
"Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war--not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government--not any other thing. We are the killers." |
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Omission of a verb from parrallel clauses
"You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit." |
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