Antimetabole

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Antithesis

Direct opposite

Epistrophe

Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words.

Anastrophe

Inversion of the natural or usual word order

Isocolon

Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length

Diacope

Repetition broken up by one or more intervening words

Syllepsis

a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")

Syllogism

a logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion

Epanalepsis

device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. Voltaire: "Common sense is not so common."

Asyndeton

omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Hypophora

raising a question then proceeding to answer it

Anadiplosis

repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

Antimetabole

repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

Anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Polysyndeton

the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural


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