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| The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. EX: You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy. |
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| An insertion of material that interrupts the typical flow of a sentence. |
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| A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies it. |
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| The omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of a passage. |
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| An omission of conjunctions between related clauses. |
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| Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words. |
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| Repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words. |
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| The repetition of consonant sounds, but not in vowels, as in assonance. |
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| The repetition of the same word or group of words at teh beginning of successive clauses. |
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| The same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences. |
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| The deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis. |
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The repetition of the last word (or phrase) from the previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next. Often combined with climax. EX: The love of wicked men converts to fear,
That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both
To worthy danger and deserved death. |
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| Figure of speach, actual part of something to describe the whole. |
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| A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as "crown" for "royalty"). Metonymy is also the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, such as describing someone's clothing to characterize the individual. |
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| A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event, real or fictional. |
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| Analogy/Extended Metaphor |
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| Comparison between two unlike things, but through the comparison it becomes easier to understand. |
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| A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement. |
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| A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. |
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| A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side; a compressed paradox. Adjective: oxymoronic. See also: verbal paradox. |
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| A statement that appears to contradict itself. |
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| A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. |
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