Repetition - Clause

Repitition

The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.

Assonance

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in a sequence of words. Usually the repetition occurs in the stressed syllables and the vowel sound is followed by different consonant sounds. The effect of assonance is euphony. It is a type of repetition.

Consonance

The repetition of identical consonant sounds words in close proximity, as in boost/best, linger/longer/later; it can also be seen within several compound words, such as fulfill and ping-pong. It is a form of repetition.

Symbol

The use of one object to represent or suggest another. A symbol is something that is itself and yet stands for, suggests, or means something else. It tends to be more singular, a bit more fixed than imagery.

Tone

The characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience. Some words describing tone are playful, serious, businesslike, sarcastic, humorous, formal, ornate, sardonic, and somber.

Ambiguity

The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.

Anaphora

One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.

Anastrophe

The reversal of word order for effect.

Antecedent

The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.

Antiphrasis

A form of verbal irony, it is a word or phrase used in a way that is contrary to its normal meaning for ironic or humorous effect.

Antithesis

Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences

Appeal

In classical rhetoric, one of the three main persuasive strategies as defined by Aristotle in Rhetoric: the appeal to logic (logos), the appeal to the emotions (pathos), and the appeal to the character (or perceived character) of the speaker (ethos)

Aphorism

A short, often witty statement articulating a principle or a truth about life.

Apostrophe

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. The effect is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back.

Asyndeton

onsists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. This can give the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account.

Atmosphere

The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author’s choice of objects that are described.

Avant-garde

A term used since the late nineteenth century to suggest art or writing that challenges tradition, or that is innovative, experimental, revolutionary, or ahead of its time.

Bombast

Language that is overly rhetorical (pompous), especially when considered in context.

Chiasmus

A figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the analogous words.

Clause

A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.