Literature: Literary Terms (and Literary & Rhetorical Devices) {with Definitions, Purposes, Examples, Etymologies, and Applications}

Acrostic (Definition)

Literary Device in which the first letter of a word in poetic verse forms a word or message with the first letters of the rest of the words in the poem

Acrostic (Purpose)

Literary Device employed by writers in an artistic fashion that gives a poem a more interpretive meaning, and makes poems and other works easier to memorize (a lost art/skill), and more fun when applied to children's literature

Adage (English Definition)

Expression best described as a "wise-saying" or "concise observation/moral principle" that conveys some sort of "universal truth" that has remained popular for a relatively short amount of time, conveying the same meaning as a "wise-saying" or "concise observation/moral principle" that has come from a literary source that has remained popular for a relatively longer amount of time (think... "wise-saying: literary and new")

Adage (General Examples)

- "YOLO" (instead of "you only live once")

Adynaton (Definition)

Literary Device that is a hyperbole in which the action being exaggerated is not only exaggerated, but impossible; drawing the reader's attention to an idea being extremely overstated

Adynaton (Literary Examples)

- "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" (from William Shakespeare's "Macbeth)

- "I'll love you till China and Africa meet" (from W.H. Auden's "As I Walked Out One Evening")

Adynaton (Purpose)

Literary Device that is used by a writer who is trying to emphasize a particular point and cannot emphasize it as strongly with a hyperbole, and in another sense is used in order to make ordinary things extraordinary

Allegory (Definition)

Literary Device in which a story and its plot and characters collectively represent an idea or principal often employed to teach a lesson, usually moral in nature

Allegory (Literary Examples)

Famous Allegorical Works Include:

- Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"

- George Orwell's "Animal Farm"

Allegory (Purpose 1)

Literary Device used by writers in order to add layers or dimensions of meaning to their stories or characters in order to promote moral, philosophical, or political points of view

Allegory (Purpose 2)

Literary Device used by writers to demonstrate their view of the world now or their view of how the world should be

Alliteration (Definition)

Literary Device in which a number of written words all have the same sound at their first syllable or stressed syllable and nowhere else in a word and to clarify - can be a consonant (so it can't be Assonance) or a vowel (so it can't be Consonance), and can only be stressed on the first syllable or stressed syllable (so Assonance and Consonance are examples of this but it isn't always an example of Assonance or Consonance)

Alliteration (Purpose)

Literary Device often employed to make poems easier to remember (a lost art/skill) by giving them a certain flow, beauty, or musical quality that can be emphasized when reciting it

Allusion (Definition)

Literary Device in which a reference is made that has some sort of significance to what the writer is trying to express, and the author doesn't explain the reference assuming the reader already knows it because the author assumes the reference to be common, but the reference on its own is enough of an explanation for what the author is trying to express

Allusion (Examples)

Literary Device in which references are often made in a work towards Literature that came before it, especially from Religious and Mythological Sources

Allusion (Purpose)

Literary Device that helps authors simplify complex ideas or emotions by summarizing what they are trying to express that is complex with a simple reference, making it easier for the author to express what they are trying to say and to help convey their thoughts more clearly to the reader

Ambiguity (Definition)

Literary Device in which a phrase is structured in such a way, especially if includes a word in which the phrase doesn't give any context to that word's part of speech, that gives the phrase (or word) more than one meaning

Ambiguity (Definition 2)

Literary Device in which a writer takes a word in a text and replaces it with a word that is more vague and makes it harder to understand a phrase or sentence, even though it doesn't make it any less grammatically correct

Ambiguity (Examples)

- "Each of us saw her duck" (the duck could be a noun or verb and the phrase doesn't include any other words that would make it a verb or noun, thus give it 2 different possible meanings)

Ambiguity (Purpose)

Literary Device employed by writers to make their writing more interpretive, encouraging readers to use their imagination more to explore meanings that aren't meant to be literal

Anachronism (Definition)

Literary Device in which a writer erroneously inserts something of one time or place and inserts it into a story of another time or place

Anachronism (Etymology)

Comes from the Greek: ana (against) and chronous (time), meaning "against time"

Anachronism (Examples)

- Neoclassical Paintings (Mythological Figures wearing clothes of late 17th and early 18th Century France, Mythological Settings involving objects of the same time and place)

Anachronism (Purpose)

Literary Device that is used either a) unintentionally because of the writer lacking research into the setting they are writing about or b) intentionally because it helps bring distant times and places closer together or c) intentionally because it adds a certain effect characteristic of fiction

Anagnorisis (Definition)

Literary Device that serves as a part of a story's plot in which the protagonist discovers the nature of someone or something that changes the protagonist from being ignorant into being knowledgeable, thus eventually leading to the resolution of a story

Anagnorisis (Literary Examples)

- Occurs when Lyubov (the sentimental owner) finally realizes who bought her cherry orchard that she enjoyed so much all her life and Lopakhin (the vengeful buyer) finally realizes the place his father and grandfather worked at as slaves all their lives {from Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard"}

Anagnorisis (Purpose)

Literary Device that serves to reveal all of the complexities in the plot of a story all at once in order to make both the protagonist finally understand his role in the story and the reader reach "catharsis" (a state of moral or spiritual renewal or liberation)

Anagram (Definition)

Literary Device in which the letters of one word are rearranged to form a new word that is used instead of the original word

Anagram (Literary Examples)

- To Praise the Subject of the Original Word: "O Draconian Devil! O Lame Saint! So Dark the Con of Man!" is a rearrangement of "Leonardo da Vinci! Mona Lisa! Madonna of the Rocks!" (from Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code"

- To Criticize the Subject of the Original Word: "Langden" is a rearrangement of "England" (from Johnathon Swift's "Gulliver's Travels")

- To Create a Character Name: Occurs as William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (a fictional prince) is a rearrangement of "Amleth" (a nonfictional Danish prince)

- To Create a Pseudonym: Occurs as Voltaire (a pen name) is a rearrangement of Arouet (a nonfictional person) {translated}

Anagram (Purpose)

Literary Device that is used in order to either a) praise or criticize the subject of the original word, b) create a character name, or c) create a pseudonym for a writer

Analogy (Definition)

Literary Device in which a comparison is made between two ideas or things that are different from each other but familiar in nature to each other that employ both a simile and a metaphor to convey the meaning of the comparison

Analogy (Literary Examples)

- "They crowded very close about him, with their hands always on him in a careful, caressing grip, as though all the while feeling him to make sure he was there. It was like men handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water" (from George Orwell's "A Hanging")

Analogy (Purpose)

Literary Device used by writers (and in real life) in order to link an unfamiliar idea or thing with a more familiar idea or thing in order to better understand the unfamiliar idea or thing

Anastrophe (English Definition)

Literary Device in which there is an inversion of words in a syntactical order

Anastrophe (Film Example)

"Powerful you have become Dooku, the dark side I sense in you." (from George Lucas's "Star Wars")

Anecdote (Definition)

Literary Device in which a short or interesting story is told within the context of a literary work

Anecdote (Purpose)

Literary Device used in order to make the reader laugh, to warn of an upcoming event., or to make the reader better understand a certain situation in a story by relating it to another story

Antagonist (Definition)

The character that stands against the protagonist of a story or literary work

Anthropomorphism (English Definition)

Literary Device in which human characteristics, emotions, or behaviors are applied to any thing that is nonhuman literally

Anthropomorphism (Literary Example)

"Where are my manners? I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away." (from Markus Zusak's "The Book Thief")

Anthropomorphism (Purpose)

Literary Device employed by authors in order to a) It help create more vivid, imaginative characters that readers can relate to because they are more human than they usually are, b) suggest that human characteristics are universal and are in some way shared by all creatures, c) tell different stories than they would be able to tell about humans, d) make a character a symbol, or even e) make a story an allegory

Aphorism (English Definition)

Expression best described as a "wise-saying" or "concise observation/moral principle" that conveys some sort of "universal truth" that has come from a literary source that has remained popular for a relatively long amount of time, conveying the same meaning as a "wise-saying" or "concise observation/moral principle" that has remained popular for a relatively short amount of time (think... "wise saying: literary and old)

Aphorism (General Example)

- "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

- "Better safe than sorry."

Aphorism (Literary Examples)

- "Slow and steady wins the race" (from Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare" of his "Fables"

- "Things are not always what they seem" (from Aesop's "The Bee-Keeper and the Bees" of his "Fables")

- "Appearances are often deceiving" (from Aesop's "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" if his "Fables")

- "God helps those who help themselves" (from Desiderius Erasmus's "Adagia")

- "Put the cart before the horse" (from Desiderius Erasmus's "Adagia")

- "Call a Spade a Spade" (from Desiderius Erasmus's "Adagia")

- "A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned" (from Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac")

- "Eat to live, don't live to eat" (Socrates, Moliere, Benjamin Franklin)

- "Tis better to have loved and lost than to never loved at all (from Alfred Lord Tennyson's "In Memoriam")

- "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances..." (from William Shakespeare's "As You Like It")

"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." (from Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina")

Aphorism (Purpose)

Literary Device employed by authors in order to a) make for excellent opening lines because they introduce big ideas in relatively few words, b) cleverly and concisely express observations or philosophical ideas, c) use them for a work's central themes, d) repeat and adapt, recycle and reuse instances of the device coined by another writer to allude to that writer's ideas

Aphorismus (English Definition)

Literary Device that a) questions the way a word is used and often hints at its inaccuracy, b) challenges a preconceived idea about how a word can be used by showing the word to be an inaccurate way of speaking about a certain subject, c) identifies a misnomer

Aphorismus (General Example)

"I can't believe they call Washington DC a state. They should call it a town." (what is called into question isn't that Washington DC is in fact a state, rather what is being questioned is the fact that a standard for most states is their size geographically or demographically, and given that Washington DC's is relatively small compared to the rest, it is inaccurate to call it a "state" by that regard alone)

Aphorismus (Greek Etymology)

Means "rejection" in Greek

Aphorismus (Literary Example)

"You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." (from Truman Capote's "Breakfast at Tiffany's")

Aphorismus (Purpose)

Literary Device used by authors in order to a) question the legitimacy of something by pointing out that it doesn't live up to its name, b) to strengthen an argument, c) to clarify an uncommon or confusing use of a word (or to try to manipulate meaning for personal reasons), d) express disbelief, shock, or disagreement with someone else's statement, e) add considerable depth to a dramatic moment, especially as a sharp rhetorical point in a speech or monologue, f) make an argument more incisive, witty, expressive or g) implicitly draw attention to another person's inappropriate use of a word

Apostrophe (English Definition)

Literary Device in which a speaker is addressing a person or thing that is not present, does not exist, or just cannot respond in reality

Apostrophe (Greek Etymology)

Means "turning away" in Greek (because when the Greeks put on plays- if they were referring to something that wasn't present, they would turn their heads away from the audience)

Assonance (English Definition)

Literary Device in which the same vowel sound repeats within a group of words and to clarify - it repeats the sound anywhere and not just on the first syllable or stressed syllable (so it can't be alliteration)

Assonance (General Example)

"I might like to take a flight to an island in the sky."

Assonance (Literary Example)

"O might those sighs and tears returns again ..." (from John Donne's "Holy Sonnets")

Assonance (Purpose)

Literary Device employed by authors in order to a) draw out the sonic quality of words in a group to make words in a group more obvious, or clearer to the reader, to b) encourage the reader to spend more time looking at, sounding out, and thinking about words in a group for a particular reason, to c) encourage continued attention, slowing down or speeding up the reading (and comprehension) process depending on how it is used or how good or bad it sounds, as this simultaneous speeding-up and slowing-down of language is pleasurable for unknown reasons but regardless will make the story attract more readers as a result, or to d) highlight the craft of the language by calling attention to the language itself as not all prose wants to make itself known as language; but some prose conveys information and causes the reader to consider the words chosen and the order in which they're written

Asyndeton (English Definition)

Literary Device in which coordinating conjunctions are omitted in between a series of items (especially in between the penultimate and last item)

Asyndeton (Literary Example)

- "An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish." (from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness")

Compound Paranomasia (English Definition)

Literary Device in which a word or phrase is shared between two unrelated words or phrases but that connect the two words or phrases in a clause or sentence

Compound Paranomasia (General Example)

"Should mathematicians go to Mobius Strip Clubs?"

Conflict (All Facts)

o Can be internal or external

o Internal: Man vs. Self; physiological, mental

o External: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Beast, Man vs. Machine

o My Side of the Mountain is a good example of Man vs. Nature

o Historical Fiction is a good example of Man vs. Society

o Man vs. Man is straightforward

Exploring Conflicts

o Textual Evidence and Page Number for Support

o Type of Conflict

o What it Reveals about the Character and/or Plot

Textual Evidence (Quote or something else) Type of Conflict Revealing of Character or Plot

Man alone left in a tower Internal, Man vs. Self

Odd Lighthouse that draws people to it

Supernatural about house

Fish swim to it External, Man vs. Nature Compelled to lighthouse

Guy offering him to leave Man vs. Self Risky, Stay or leave?

Loneliness and Depression Man vs. Self, Man vs. Beast, Man vs. Supernatural

Man vs. Society

Man vs. Self

Man vs. Supernatural, he leaves questions behind for us to try to answer, not resolved, raising ethical questions by promoting the idea of destroying a lone monster's home, not futuristic because of the lighthouse's presence and the description seems to make it in the past

Man vs. Nature, loneliness, against main themes as he usually writes about it, alien protects territory

Man vs. Society

Conflict (Definition)

Problem that occurs throughout a literary work, in which the setting often contributes to or results in the problem that is addressed and resolved by the end of the novel (or not resolved in some cases)

Consonance (English Definition)

Literary Device in which the same consonant sound repeats within a group of words and to clarify - it repeats the sound anywhere and not just on the first syllable or stressed syllable (so it can't be Alliteration)

Consonance (General Example)

"A duck that clucked drove a truck into an aqueduct."

Consonance (Literary Example)

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume..." (from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself")

Consonance (Purpose)

Literary Device employed by writers in order to a) make words more memorable, to b) increase the sonic or "musical" quality of words in a group, making the words stand out to the reader, to c) encourage the reader to spend more time looking at, sounding out, and thinking about words in a group, to c) encourage continued attention, slowing down or speeding up the reading (and comprehension) process depending on how it is used or how good or bad it sounds, as this simultaneous speeding-up and slowing-down of language is pleasurable for unknown reasons but regardless will make the story attract more readers as a results) encourage readers to pay more attention to language, or to d) create a group of words that have special resonance with the meaning of the lines or sentences in which they occur and imitate or even do the thing that is being described rather than simply talking about it

Epigram (English Definition)

Expression that is short and concise but DOES NOT convey some sort of "universal truth" and often employ wit, satire, and sarcasm

Foreshadowing (Definition)

Literary Device in which an author employs subtle details or clues that hint at upcoming events in a literary work

Foreshadowing (Example)

"Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice. He had never seen aircraft so close, for it was against the rules for Pilots to fly over the community."

Prediction: Planes flying over the community will frighten Jonas in the future. They may be war planes about to attack the community.

Analysis: The author at this point in the work (The Giver by Lois Lowry) has only given a hint or two of information that they will reveal more and more of as the work progresses (goes back to the idea that the author needs a plan in advance that is scoped out for the literary work)

Foreshadowing (Purpose)

Literary Device that allows an author to build a novel while laying the groundwork for upcoming character and plot development often involving detailed planning that is scoped out for the literary work in question

Homonymic Paranomasia (English Definition)

Literary Device in which a word or phrase sounds the same (so it can't be Homographic Paranomasia) and the has the same spelling to another word (so it can't be Homophonic Paranomasia), but its meanings are different and to clarify - its a word used only once and is not a word or phrase that repeated in a clause or sentence (so it can't be Antanaclasis)

Homonymic Paronomasia (Literary Example)

"You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass." (Douglas Adams)

Hyperbaton (English Definition)

Literary Device in which there is an inversion of words in a idiomatic order

List of Literary Devices (All Devices)

2. Allusion

3. Amplification

4. Allegory

5. Anagram

6. Analogy

7. Anastrophe

8. Anecdote

9. Anthropomorphism

10. Antithesis

11. Aphorism

12. Archetype

13. Assonance

14. Asyndeton

15. Authorial Intrusion

16. Bibliomancy

17. Bildungsroman

18. Cacophony

19. Caesura

20. Characterization

21. Chiasmus

22. Circumlocution

23. Conflict

24. Connotation

25. Consonance

26. Denotation

27. Deus ex Machina

28. Diction

29. Doppelganger

30. Ekphratic

31. Epilogue

32. Epithet

33. Euphemism

34. Euphony

35. Faulty Parallelism

36. Flashback

37. Foil

38. Foreshadowing

39. Hubris

40. Hyperbaton

41. Hyperbole

42. Imagery

43. Internal Rhyme

44. Inversion

45. Irony

46. Juxtaposition

47. Kennings

48. Litote

49. Malapropism

50. Metaphor

51. Metonymy

52. Mood

53. Motif

54. Negative Capability

55. Nemesis

56. Onomatopoeia

57. Oxymoron

58. Paradox

59. Pathetic Fallacy

60. Periodic Structure

61. Periphrasis

62. Personification

63. Plot

64. Point of View

65. Polysyndeton

66. Portmanteau

67. Prologue

68. Puns

69. Rhyme Scheme

70. Rhythm & Rhyme

71. Satire

72. Setting

73. Simile

74. Spoonerism

75. Stanza

76. Stream of consciousness

77. Suspense

78. Symbol

79. Synecdoche

80. Synesthesia

81. Syntax

82. Theme

83. Tone

84. Tragedy

85. Understatement

86. Verisimilitude

Malapropism (English Definition)

Literary Device in which an erroneous word is unintentionally substituted for another word

Malapropism (General Example)

- "You should have illterated (instead of obliterated) the building a long time ago"

Metaphor (Definition)

Literary Device in which a comparison is made WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as"

Metaphor (Definition 2)

Literary Device in which a statement that is made that expresses a deeper meaning about the thing being compared rather than just a literal meaning

Mood (Definition)

A temporary state of mind or feeling, the feeling itself; a continuous matter of predominant emotion; types of differential attitudes

Mood (Purpose)

Along with tone, it is constantly changed to make a story more entertaining and lifelike and works with setting to convey or carry it throughout the story; it is used to let the reader know how to feel about a certain character; created by carefully choosing different kinds of language and putting words together a certain way

Personification (English Definition)

Literary Device in which human characteristics, emotions, or behaviors are applied to any thing that is nonhuman figuratively

Personification (General Example)

"The waves winked in the sunlight"

Personification (Purpose)

Literary Device employed by writers in order to a) create memorable images with language, b) allow readers to experience their works in a more vivid way, c) convey a more specific reason characteristic of the writer employing it

Point of View, POV (All Facts)

is the way a story or book is being viewed as in a certain perspective, 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person

Dialogue is the Character Speaking

Narration is when the Author is Speaking

Quotation marks separate narration from dialogue

Make sure to put the punctuation inside the quotes based on the type of sentence, be it Imperative

The Narrator determines the Point of View

Not looking at dialogue

What determines the point of View are the pronouns the author uses in the story

They are only singular and personal, not plural nor possessive pronouns

Pronoun Chart:

"I am in the room" First Person

"You come in the room" Second Person

"He comes in the room" Third Person

The 1st Type of 3rd Person is called Objective- Meaning you know none of the characters thoughts, ideas, or feeling

The 2nd Type of 3rd Person is called Limited- Meaning you only know the thoughts, ideas, or views of one character

The 3rd Type of 3rd Person is called Omniscient- All Knowing, Meaning you only know the thoughts, ideas, or views of every character

Omni- All, Scient- Knowing

When picking out point of view, dialogue does not determine the Point of View

Protagonist (Definition)

The main character of a story or literary work

Proverb (English Definition)

Expression best described as a "wise-saying" or "concise observation/moral principle" that conveys some sort of "universal truth" that has always been popular and comes from an oral source (think... wise-saying: oral and timeless)

Repetition: Anadiplosis/Gradatio [Poetry] (English Definition)

Literary Device that is one of the many forms of Repetition, one in which a word or phrase is repeated by being used at the end of one clause and used again at the beginning of the next clause {often overlaps with Antimetabole}

Repetition: Anadiplosis/Gradatio [Poetry] (General Examples)

- "When the going gets tough, the tough get going" (this is also a good example of Antimetabole, because the second phrase after the punctuation is a rearrangement of the first phrase)

Repetition: Anadiplosis/Gradatio [Poetry] (Literary Examples)

- As a word: "The mountains look on marathon - and marathon looks on the sea" (from Lord Byron's "The Isles of Greece")

- As a phrase: "What I present here is what I remember of the letter - and what I remember of the letter I remember verbatim" (from Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita")

- As a main idea: "You must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love" (from the Bible's

"Second Book of Peter") [support is underlined because that is the key idea]

Repetition: Anadiplosis (Greek Definition)

Literary Device in which a word or phrase is repeated immediately after it is mentioned, within the same sentence

Repetition: Anaphora (English Definition)

Literary Device in which a word or phrase is repeated, but at the beginning of several successive clauses, sentences, or paragraphs

Repetition: Anaphora (General Example)

- As a Phrase: “My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.”

Repetition: Anaphora (Greek Etymology)

Means "to carry up or back" in Greek

Repetition: Anaphora (Historical Example)

- As a Phrase: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender!" (from Winston Churchill's "WW2" Speech)

- As a Phrase: "Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of California. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California." (from Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech)

Repetition: Anaphora (Literary Example)

- As a Phrase: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness..." (from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities")

Repetition: Anaphora (Musical Example)

- As a Word: "Every breath you take. Every move you make. Every bond you break. Every step you take." (from The Police's "Every Breath You Take")

Repetition: Anastrophe (Greek, SMYTH Definition)

Literary Device that is one of the many forms of Repetition, one in which a word or phrase is repeated by being used at the end of one clause and used again at the beginning of the next clause

Repetition: Antanaclasis (Advertising Example)

- "If you don't get it, you don't get it" (The Washington Post) {this is also a good example of Ambiguity because "it" is replacing "The Washington Post" and "the knowledge of what's going on" respectively, thus if in a more literary context, would activate the imagination of the reader}

Repetition: Antanaclasis (English Definition)

Literary Device in which a word or phrase is repeated, but the meaning of the word or phrase changes from its original meaning each time it is repeated in a clause or sentence and to clarify - although it is a repeated word or phrase even though there could be words in between, the meaning of those words change when repeated (so it can't be a Diacope) and to further clarify - although it is a repeated word or phrase even though there could NOT be words in between, the meaning of those words change when repeated (so it can't be Epizeuxis) and to even further clarify - although it is a word or phrase in a clause or sentence that has the same sound (so it can't be Homographic Paranomasia), and has the same spelling (so it can't be Homophonic Paranomasia), it also is repeated (so it can't be Homonymic Paranomasia) and to clarify the heck out of this - although it is a word or phrase in a clause or sentence that is repeated, it changes meaning, but doesn't change to the opposite meaning (so it can't be Antistasis)

Repetition: Antanaclasis (Greek Etymology)

Means "reflection" in Greek