Anaphora

 (a-NA-pho-ra)

repetition of beginnings

Example:

"Good food. Good cheer. Good times."

Anastrophe

(a-NAS-tro-phe)

arrangement by reversal of order

Example:

"the leaves are rust and gold"

anastrophe: "rust and gold are the leaves"

Antanaclasis

(ANT-a-na-CLASS-is)

repetition in different senses

Example:

"If you don’t look good, we don’t look good."

Antimetabole

(AN-ti-me-TA-bo-lee)

repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

Example:

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us."

Antithesis

(an-TI-the-sis)

repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

Example:

"You're easy on the eyes and hard on the heart"

Asyndeton

(a-SYN-de-ton)

omission of conjunctions from clauses

Example:

"it's a northern coutry;
they have cold weather,
they have cold hearts"

Auxesis

(aux-EE-sis)

arrangement by ascending importance

Example:

referring to a scratch as a wound

Chiasmus

(ki-AZ-mus)

repetition of ideas in inverted order

Example:

"I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me."

Ellipsis

(el-LIP-sis)

ommission

Example:

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

Epanorthosis

(EP-a-NOR-tho-sis)

addition by correction

(sometimes form parenthesis)

Example:

"I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

Epizeuxis

(EP-i-ZOOK-sis)

repetition immediately

Example:

"I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch, scotch."

Erotema

(ER-o-TEEM-a)

asking a question to affirm or deny a point

Example:

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

Isocolon

(i-so-COL-on)

repetition of grammatical forms

Example:

"It takes a liking, but it keeps on ticking!"

Parenthesis

(pa-REN-the-sis)

addition of "pop-up" idea

Example:

"Dogs have (like every other predator) the killer instinct."

Polysyndeton

(POL-y-SYN-de-ton)

additions of conjunctions

Example:

"In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty and morality and loyalty and obligation."

Zeugma

(ZEUG-ma)

ommission of a verb from parallel clauses

Example:

"You held your breath and the door for me."