repetition of beinnings

ex: No woman can call herself free untill she can choose whether she will or will not be a mother

arrangement by reversal of order

ex: Ready are you? What know you of ready?

repetion in different senses

ex: If you don't look good, we don't look good.

repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

ex: stop static before static stops you.

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.

repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

ex: you're easy on the eyes hard on the heart.

omission of conjunctions from clauses

ex: he was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac.

arrangement by ascending importance

ex: Jeans that can lengthen legs, hug hips, and turn heads

repetition of ideas in inverted order

ex: I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me.

omission

ex: Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity a greater.

addition by correction (sometimes a form of parenthesis)

ex: with a heave of his chest, Croker rose and came walking- or rather, limping- toward him.

repetition immediately

ex: I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly.

asking a question to affirm or deny a point

ex: marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

repetition of grammatical forms

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ex: it takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking.

addition of a "pop up" idea

ex: my very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightening) when I was there.

addition of conjunctions

ex: it is respectable to have no illusions- and safe- and profitable- and dull.

omission of a verb from parallel clauses

ex: she arrived in a taxi and a flaming rage.