Schemes Of Repetition, Words, And Construction

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Paralellism

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Similarity of structure in a pair of related words, phrases, or clauses

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Antithesis

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the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel form

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Anastrophe

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inversion of the natural or usual word order

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Parenthesis

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insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence

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Apposition

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placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first

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Ellipsis

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deliberate omission of a word o words which re readily supplied by the context

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Asyndeton

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deliberate omission of conjunctions between related clauses

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Alliteration

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repetition of initial or medial consonant sounds in two or more adjacent words

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Assonance

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repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words

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Anaphora

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repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses

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Epistrophe

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

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Analepsis

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

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Anadiplosis

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

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Climac

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repetition of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance

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Antimetabole

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

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Polyptoton

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repetition of words derived from the same root