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Alliteration
Repetition of consonant sounds in successive words
Anaphora
Reptition at the beginning of successive clauses or sentneces
Epistrophe
Repetition at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Parallelism
Similar synctatical pattern in multiple sentences, clauses, paragraphs
Antimetabole
A “mirrored” sentence effect in which a sentnece or clause is reversed in a subsequent sentence or clause
Antithesis
Parallelism that creates a negotiation
Circumlocution
An idea that could be simply expressed is elaborately expressed
Climax
Series of examples with the final example being the most important
Hypophera
Answer your own rhetorical question
Juxtaposition
Two ideas/objects/whatever are compared contrasted
Rhetorical question
Question that isn’t meant to be ansewred
Zeugma
A single word or phrase is applied to two others in different senses
Polysyndeton
In a series, the use of no commas with an excessive amount of coordinating conjuctions
Asyndeton
In a series, the ues of commas without coordinating conjuctions (FANBOYS)
Irony
the contrast between reality and expectatoins
Simile
Comparison between two things using the word like or as
Pun
Humorous mixup of words or phrases tha tsound the same
Personification
Giving human qualities to non human things
Synechdoche
A part of the whole represents for the whole
Understatement
Deliberate de-emphasis
Hyperbole
Deliberate exaggeration
Metaphor
Compares two unlike things
Oxymoron
Two words next to each other that create an ironic contrast or opposition
Paradox
A phrase or statement that negates reality, that creates something that can’t happen
