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| ("carrying back"; "repetition of the same word at the beginning of successive clauses or verses" [Lanham 11]: "Curt Shinning is sorry he said... Pacman Jones is sorry he did... Calvin Borel is sorry he thought..." |
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| (a means of calling attention to something important): "Location, location, location." "A rose is a rose is a rose." |
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| A periodic sentence has an obvious structure; ordinarily its main part does not come at the beginning... Later rhetoricians dictated that rhetors should postpone the sense of the period until readers reached its final member..." |
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| ("a sudden turn" "transposed") (separation of words usually belonging together [Lanham]): "This is the kind of impertinence up with which I will not put" (Churchill quote) |
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| ("ladder"; members become increasingly important): "Now what remnant of the hop of liberty survives, if those men may do what they please, if they can do what they may, if they dare do what they can, if they do what they dare, and if you approve what they do?" |
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| ("bending back"; repeats a word in two different senses): "I would leave this place, should the Senate give me leave" "Your argument is soun, nothing but sound" |
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| ("turns the same verb in different directions"): "She would as soon stain her honor, or her new brocade." "Mercury, and Certainty, Rising" |
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| (appositio -- "putting off from") "Mary, though reputed to be in love with John, is found of Fred" |
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| ("turning away"; "to call on the audience or someone else"): "I am, heaven help me, lost" |
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| (isocolon; commas or colons that are similarly structured and repeated with a single period) "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." |
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| (no connectors; gives the impression of haste): "I ordered them to be summoned, guarded, brought before the senate..." |
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| (many connectors -- calls attention to each item, leisurely...) "Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise..." |
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| ("the same name"; "using words that are similar in meaning as a means of repeating an important point"): "call it treason, betrayal, sedition, or villainy -- it is one" |
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| ("same ending"; repeats words having similar endings): "You dare to act dishonorably, you strive to talk despicably; you live hatefully..." |
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| antimetabole like chiasmus |
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| ("thrown over against"; expresses contrasting ideas in juxtaposed structures): "A poem ought to be a painting that speaks; a painting ought to be a silent poem" [Lanham: inverting the order of repeated word] "When the going gets tough, the tought get going." |
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| ("a bringing to or upon"; repeats the last word in successive phrases): "It was by the justice of the Roman people that the Carthaginians were conquered, by its force of arms that they were conquered, by its generosity that they were conquered" |
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| ("repeating two pieces"; "repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the next"): "For your brother and my sister no sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked by they loved; no sooner loved by they sighed;..." |
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| chiasmus like antimetabole |
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| ("arranged crosswire"; an antithesis where the actual words are reversed): "Data survive all hope of learning, but hope must learn how to survive the data" |
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| (paronomasia)("exploits the accidental resemblances among words"): "He told the sexton, and the sexton tolled the bell" |
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| ("a statement alongside another")(interpositio): "But confidence in the government -never very high- is bleeding away" |
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