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the regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases of clauses.
"Play hard, play fast, play ruthless." |
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the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas.
"To err is human, to forgive divine". |
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an address or invocation to something inanimate.
"You stand erect, grand Tower of London." |
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repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
"The spider skins lie on their sides" |
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conjunctions are omitted in series; rapid prose.
"We walked, swam, cycled about the lagoon." |
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| the repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels. "pitter patter / splish splash." |
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instructive purpose. Lesson
(from Greek; "good teaching") |
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movement from the specific to the general.
"Spiders bite; all insects must bite". |
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movement from general to the specific. (deduce => reduce).
"Fruit is sweet; this grape must be sweet." |
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parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length.
"Many are called, but few are chosen". |
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conscious understatement.
"Not bad" |
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a long sentence that starts with main clause, followed by several dependent clauses and modifying phrases.
"We ate the cake, swooping down, forks in hand, with little regard."
(a loose woman gives everything up front) |
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figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something.
"The White House is a major supporter of this project". |
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a long sentence in which the main clause is at the end.
"Chewing slowly, with lips smacking, and eyes blurred, we ate the cake."
(a period is at the end of a sentence). |
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a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole.
"We got 50 head of cattle". |
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a verb or adjective is applied to 2 or more nouns without being repeated.
"He died on stage and then in his dressing room." |
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