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| Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive sentences, clauses, and phrases. | ||
| Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive sentences, clauses, and phrases. | ||
| Structure in which the second half of the expression is balanced against the first, with the parts reversed, creating an A-B-B-A structure. | ||
| Structure in which the second half of the expression is balanced against the first, with the words reversed, creating an A-B-B-A structure. | ||
| Repetition of a word in two different senses. | ||
| Use of a word (usually a verb) understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs. | ||
| Beginning and ending a phrase or clause with the same word or words. | ||
| Occurs when the last word or terms in one sentence, clause, or phrase is/are repeated at or very near the beginning of the next sentence, clause, or phrase. | ||
| Address to an absent or imaginary person. | ||
| A figure of speech that uses disruption or inversion of customary word order. | ||
| Purposeful omission of otherwise required conjunctions | ||
| The purposeful inclusion of otherwise unnecessary conjunctions | ||
| A group of words that modifies an independent clause as a whole. This clause is made up of a noun and its modifiers. It may precede, follow, or interrupt the main clause. It usually begins with a pronoun of possession | ||
| A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The phrase can be a short or long combination of words. | ||
| A noun modifying phrase that is introduced by a participial | ||
| Substitution of one part of speech for another | ||
| Repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings | ||
| The use of a proper name as a shorthand to stand for qualities associated with it. | ||
| The omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction. | ||
| A specific type of hyperbaton in which an adjective appears after a noun when the reader expects it to appear before the noun. |
