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Parallelism
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Antithesis
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas or words, often I parallel structure
Climax
The arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing important, often I parallel structure
Inversion
The usual word order is rearranged often for the effect of emphasis or to maintain the meter
Parenthesis
The insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence
Apposition
Juxtaposing two coordinating elements, normally noun phrases, one of which defines, explains, or modifies the other
Ellipsis
Deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context
Asyndeton
deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses
Polysyndeton
The opposite of asyndeton → deliberate use of many conjunctions
Anaphora
Deliberate repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences or lines
Epistrophe
Deliberate repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive clauses, sentences or lines
Epanalepsis
Repetition at the end of a clause of the word or words that occurred at the beginning of the same clause
Anadiplosis
The repetition of the last word (or phrase) from one clause at the beginning of the following clause
Chiasmus
Repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order
Atimetabole
Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order