Structure techniques

Repetition

When a word is repeted more than once throughout a text.

(e.g. “I Remember, I remember”)

Anaphora

When following sentence start the same.
(e.g. “I was told she liked me, I was told she hated me”)

Epistrophe

The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of sentences.

(e.g. "If you had known the virtue of the ring, / Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,)

Anadiplosis

When a word or a group of words that is the end of one sentence is repeated at the beginning of the following phrase. 
(e.g Turn the lights out now
Now I'll take you by the hand)

Chiasmus

When words in one phrase are inverted in the following phrase. 

(e.g"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country")

Asyndeton

When conjunctions are not used in a sentence where there is a list of different phrases.

(e.g. "I came, I saw, I conquered,")

Polysyndeton

When many conjunctions are used in a sentence to slow it down. 

(e.g. "There were frowzy fields, and cow-houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps,")

Ellipsis

a set of dots (…) indicating an ellipsis.

(e.g. She disappered into darkness…)

Foreshadowing

be a warning or indication of (a future event).

(e.g. “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”)

Motif

a dominant or recurring idea in a text.

(e.g Blood in Macbeth)

Dramatic irony

When the audience knows something the characters don’t.

(e.g. Juliet is alive when Romeo kills himself)

Hypophora

a rhetorical device where a speaker or writer asks a question and then immediately answers it themselves.

(e.g. “Why should you care? Because the future depends on it”)

Rhetorical question

a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

(E.g Who cares?)

Anastrophe

the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.

(e.g. “Gold was the colour of the leaves”/”the colour of the leaves were gold”)

Epizeuxis

The repetition of words and phrases used for emphasis

(e.g. "Words, words, words")