A rhetorical term for the repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the next

Example: "When I give, I give myself." (Walt Whitman)

a rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the begining of successive clauses

Example: I think I can, I think I will, I think I did.

a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C, C-B-A)

Example: I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life chose me

opposition, contrasting statements describing the same thing

Example: "Give me liberty or give me death."

the act of placing toegether or bringing into proximity; juxtaposition

Example:"It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster--the period of soya beans and Basic English--and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendors of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language, which now with a full stomach I find distasteful."
(Evelyn Waugh in 1959 on his wartime novel Brideshead Revisited)

deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses. the effect of this device is to produce a hurried rhythm in the sentence.

Example: "I came,  I saw, I conquered." (Julius Ceasar)

reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses.

Chiasmus is similar to antimetabole but it is unlike in that it does not involve a repettition of words.

Example:"exalts his enemies, his friends destroy." (John Dryden)

arrangement of words, phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance.

Example:"let a man acknowledge obligations to his family, hiis country, and his God." (student paper)

deliberate omission of a word or words which are readily implied by the context.

Example:"so singularly clear was the water that when it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom seemed floating on air! yes, where it was even eighty feet deep. every little pebble was distinc, every speckled trout, every hand's breadth of sand." (Mark Twain)

repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause.

Example:"blood hath brought blood, and blows have awnsered blows:strength match'd whith strength, and power confronted power." (Shakespeare, King John)

repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses

Example:"But to all of those who would be tempted by weakness, let us leave no doubt that we will be as strong as we need to be for as long as we need to be."

a scheme of parallel structure which occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length.(number of words or even number of syllables)

Example:"an envious heart makes a treacherous ear." (Their Eyes Were Watching God)

similarity of structure in a pari or series or related words, phrases, or clauses.

Example: "So Janey waited a bloom time, and a green time and and orange time."(Their Eyes Were Watching God)

insetion of some verbal unit ina position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow fo the sentences

Example:"Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization-pardon me, our whoe culture(an importnat distinction, I've heard) which might sound like a hoaz, or a contradiction, bbut that (by contradiction, I mean) is how the world moves:not like an arrow but a boomerang."(Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man)

deliberate use of many conjunctions

Example:"i said,'who killed him?' and he said 'I dont know who killed him but he's dead all right.' and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown down..." (Ernest Hemingway)

the stylistic scheme in which words derived from the same root are repeated (e.g. "strong" and "strength")

Example:"With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder."(shakespeare)