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Parallelism

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

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Antithesis

The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas or words, often I parallel structure

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Climax

The arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing important, often I parallel structure 

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Inversion

The usual word order is rearranged often for the effect of emphasis or to maintain the meter

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Parenthesis

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

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Apposition

Juxtaposing two coordinating elements, normally noun phrases, one of which defines, explains, or modifies the other

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Ellipsis

Deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context 

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Asyndeton

deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses

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Polysyndeton

The opposite of asyndeton → deliberate use of many conjunctions

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Anaphora

Deliberate repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences or lines

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Epistrophe 

Deliberate repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive clauses, sentences or lines 

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Epanalepsis

Repetition at the end of a clause of the word or words that occurred at the beginning of the same clause 

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Anadiplosis

The repetition of the last word (or phrase) from one clause at the beginning of the following clause

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Chiasmus

Repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order

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Atimetabole

Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order