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repitition of beggining
We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender.
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Arangement by reversal of order
"the leaves are rust and gold " the anastrophe would be : "rust and gold are the leaves
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Repitition in different sense
Antanaclasis is a word used in two or more of its possible meanings, as in the final 2 lines of Robert Frost's "Stopping by..more |
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Repitition of sucessive clause in reverse grammatical order
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence" is an example of antimetabole |
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Repitition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition
Such as Hot Cold
Ebony and Ivory
Black and White |
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omission of conjunction from clause
The evening whispered perfume, the twilight warmed his eyes, the dancing melted her inhibitions, the second burrito grande spoiled his moment
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Arrangement by ascending importance
She is my happiness! - she is my torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me too! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a million-fold the power of retribution for my sin? |
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Repitition of ideas in inverted order
But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er / Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strong loves. from Othello 3.3 by William Shakespeare. |
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omission
My dreams had no end that night; my delight no limit.
In the anime world, Naruto is a hero; Goku, a legend.
I love coffee; my spouse, soda.
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Addition by correction(sometimes form parenthesis)
"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." |
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