For expanded definitions and examples, examine http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm or http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm or
http://www.mrgunnar.net/files/Schemes%20and%20Tropes%20complete%20HO.pdf (to whom I am greatly indebted).
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| 4035521967 | Parallelism | --similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 0 | |
| 4035521968 | Isocolon | --similarity not only of structure but of length | 1 | |
| 4035521969 | Antithesis | --the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure | 2 | |
| 4035521970 | Anastrophe | --inversion of the natural or usual word order | 3 | |
| 4035521971 | Parenthesis | --insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence | 4 | |
| 4035521972 | Apposition | --placing side by side two co-ordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first | 5 | |
| 4035521973 | Ellipsis | --the deliberate omission of a word or of words readily implied by the context | 6 | |
| 4035521974 | Asyndeton | --deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series | 7 | |
| 4035521975 | Polysyndeton | --deliberate use of many conjunctions | 8 | |
| 4035521976 | Alliteration | --repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words | 9 | |
| 4035521977 | Assonance | --the repetition of similar vowel forms, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words | 10 | |
| 4035521978 | Anaphora | --repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 11 | |
| 4035521979 | Epistrophe | --repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | 12 | |
| 4035521980 | Epanalepsis | --repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause | 13 | |
| 4035521981 | Anadiplosis | --repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 14 | |
| 4035521982 | Climax | --arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance | 15 | |
| 4035521983 | Schemes | --rhetorical figure of speech which involves changing the order of words in a sentence | 16 | |
| 4035521984 | Antimetabole | --repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order | 17 | |
| 4035521985 | Chiasmus | --reversal of grammatical structures in a successive clauses (but no repetition of words) | 18 | |
| 4035521986 | Polyptoton | --repetition of words derived from the same root | 19 |
