Melodic organization

Motive

The musical idea (no more than a measure or two in length)

Sequence

 Repeating figure starting on a different note but containing the same intervals

Phrase

Is a musical thought or sentence usually ending with a longer-valued note; contains an antecedent and consequent 

parallel consequent

starts the same way as the antecedent but ends on the tonic

contrasting consequent

starts differently but also ends on the tonic