repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next

Ex: "The pride was common, common be the pain."

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Ex: We MUST go to the store, we MUST get some ice cream and we MUST make an ice cream sundae.

The repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order

Ex: "One should eat to live, not live to eat."

Def: the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas

Ex: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

 Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses

Ex: "I come, I saw, I conquered."

The placement side-by-side of two coordinate elements (noun phrases), the second of which serves to identify or rename the first

Ex: Soldiers, those veteran freedom fighters, did what they had to do and did not speak of those acts when they came home.

The reversal of grammarical structures in successive phrases or clauses

Ex: "Exalts his enemies, his friends destroy."

arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance

Ex: "Let a man acknowledge obligations to his family, his country, and his God."

deliberate omission of a word or words which are really implied by the context

Ex: "And he to England shall along with you."

repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause

Ex: "Blood hath brought blood and blows hath brought blows.."

repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends if successive clauses

Ex: "When we first came we were very many and you were few. Now you are many and we are getting few."

an extreme exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect

Ex: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!

a figure of speech or sentence having a parallel structure formed by the use of two or more clauses of similar length

Ex: “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

Similarity of structure in a pair orseriesof related words, phrases, or clauses.

Ex: I went to the store, he went to the kitchen.

a qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clause, or sentence that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it

Ex: The yellow car -- with bent bumpers -- obviously had been in a car crash.

repetition of words derived from the same root

Ex: We are trying to obtain the unobtainable.

deliberate use of many conjunctions

Ex: The child played in the sand box and the mother watched and the wind howled and the trees whistled.

a question with a seemingly obvious answer

Ex: There is no prevention for global warming, so why all the choas?