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Repetition of beginnings
Examples:
"I needed a drink, i needed a lot of life insurance, i needed a vacation, i needed a home in the country." |
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Arrangement by reversal of order
Examples:
"Sure i am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer." |
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Repetition in different senses
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"People on the go...go for coke." |
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Repetition of successive clauses in reverse gramatical order.
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"Stop static before static stops you." |
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Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition
Examples:
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing." |
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Omission of conjunctions from clauses
Examples:
"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." |
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Arrangment by ascending importance
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"Jeans that can lengthen legs, hug hips, and turn heads." |
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repetition of ideas in inverted order
Examples:
"I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me." |
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Omission
Examples:
"Prosperity is a great teacher, adversity a greater." |
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Addition by correction
Examples:
"Maybe there is a beast...What i mean is...Maybe it's only us." |
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Repetition immediately
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"Bad, fast! Fast! Fast! Last night I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch and was in the bed before the room was dark." |
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Asking a question to affirm or deny a point
Examples:
Dr. Cameron: Why did you hire me?
Dr. House: Does it matter?
Dr. Cameron: Kind of hard to work for a guy who doesn't respect you.
Dr. House: Why? |
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Repetition of grammatical forms
Examples:
"I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, we're a Pepper--
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper!" |
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Addition of "pop up" idea
Examples:
"The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation." |
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Addition of conjunctions
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"Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness." |
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Omission of a verb from parallel clauses
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"You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit." |
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