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| the deliberate omission of a word or words readily implied by the context. ex. The ceremony honored twelve brilliant athletes from the Caribbean who were visiting the US. The ceremony honored twelve brilliant athletes... visiting the US. | ||
| Deliberate omission of conjunctions between items in a series ex. They dove, splashed, floated, swam, snorted. | ||
| Deliberate use of many conjunctions ex. She went round and round and round until she felt dizzy. | ||
| Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words ex. The silent, slithering snake quickly slid through the green grass. | ||
| The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. ex. On a proud round cloud in a white high night "oud" & "i" | ||
| Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses. ex. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, and I thought as a child. | ||
| Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause. ex. Next time there won't be a text time. Common sense isn't so common. | ||
| Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. ex. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. | ||
| Arrangements of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance. | ||
| Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. ex. Eat to live, not live to eat. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do what your country. | ||
| Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses ex. you forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. I flee to chases and chase who flees me. | ||
| Repetition of words derived from the same root. ex. choosy mothers choose; to be ignorant of one's ignorance is ignorant |
