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| 6729502045 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines. Ex. "My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration." | 0 | |
| 6729502046 | Antithesis | Opposite or contrast of ideas or words. Ex. "Speech is silver, but silence is gold." | 1 | |
| 6729504089 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words. Ex. "An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish." | 2 | |
| 6729506259 | Apposition | A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. Ex. "The Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, Africa's only nuclear power plant, was inaugurated in 1984 by the apartheid regime and is the major source of electricity for the Western Cape's 4.5 million population." | 3 | |
| 6729506260 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses. Ex. "Like father, like son" | 4 | |
| 6729511213 | Participial Phrase | A phrase containing a verb that functions as an adjective by modifying nouns. Ex. "Going to the store, my sister ate an apple." | 5 | |
| 6729516338 | Epistrophe | The repetition of words or phrases comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences rather than at the beginning usually in 3. Ex. "There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem." | 6 | |
| 6729516339 | Symploce | Combines anaphora and epistophe by repeating words both at the beginning and the end of phrases, clauses or sentences. Ex. "The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason." | 7 | |
| 6729527513 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word(s) of a sentence or clause at or near the beginning of the next. | 8 | |
| 6729527514 | Conduplicatio | Repeats a key word from preceding clause or sentence at or near beginning of the next. | 9 | |
| 6729534280 | Epanalepsis | Repeating the beginning word(s) of a clause or sentence at the end. | 10 | |
| 6729537264 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence who's main clause is withheld until the end. | 11 | |
| 6729568499 | Dominant Impression | A quality, mood or atmosphere that reinforces the writer's purpose. | 12 | |
| 6729584150 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order. | 13 | |
| 6729585940 | Cumulative Sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea of the beginning of a sentence and then builds and adds on. | 14 | |
| 6729588590 | Hortative Sentence | Sentence that exhorts, advises or calls to action. | 15 | |
| 6729588591 | Imperative Sentence | Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore or entreat. | 16 | |
| 6729592163 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of subject-verb-object order). | 17 | |
| 6729592164 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts. | 18 | |
| 6729595417 | Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the whole. | 19 | |
| 6729600738 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings. Ex. "His boat and his dreams sank." | 20 |
