Writing Iv Figures Of Speech

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Antithesis

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The juxtapostion of contrasting ideas often in parallel structure.

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Repetition

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Repeating the same ideas or sometimes words.

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Hyperbaton

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An intended and dramatic deviation from ordinary word order (syntax) for emphasis or poetic affect.

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Anastrophe

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A figure of speech in which a languages usual word order is inverted.

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Parenthesis

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Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow.

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Asyndeton

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The deliberate omission of a conjunction between a series of related clauses.

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Polysyndeton

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Deliberate use of many conjunctions.

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Alliteration

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Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.

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Anaphora

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Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning 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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Epanalepsis

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Repetition at the ends of a clause of the word that occurred words at the beginning of the clause.

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Polyptoton

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Repetition of words derived from the same root, with different grammatical functions or forms.

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of a word from the end of one line or clause to begin the next line or clause, from Greek, meaning "a doubling, folding up".

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Anthimeria

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Substitution of one part of speech for another.

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Ellipsis

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The general name for the deliberate omission of a word or of words, which are readily implied by the context.