Repetition of beginnings

Example:"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."

Arrangemnet by reversal of order

Example:"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

Reperition in different senses

Example:"People on the go . . . go for Coke."

Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

Example:"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

Example:"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

Omission of conjuctions from cluases

Example:"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."

Arrangemnet by ascending importance

Example:"It's a well hit ball, it's a long drive, it might be, it could be, it IS . . . a home run."

Repetition of ideas in inverted order

example:Nice to see you, to see you, nice!"

Omission

Example:"The streets were deserted, the doors bolted."

Addition by correction (somtimes from of parenthesis)

example:"Maybe there is a beast. . . . What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us."

Repetiton immediately

Example:"I undid the lantern cautiously--oh, so cautiously--cautiously."

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

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

Repetition of grammatical forms

Example:"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!"

addition of "pop-up" idea

Example:"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three."

Addition of conjunctions

example:"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."

Omission of a verb from parrallel clauses

example:"Kill the boys and the luggage!"