Anaphora

(a Na pho ra)

Repetition of beginning

Ex: "Sir Walter Raleigh. Good food. Good cheer. Good times."

Anastrophe

(a NAS tro phe)

Arrangement by reversal of order

Ex: "Gracious she was. By gracious I mean full of graces. . . ."

Antanaclasis

(ANT  a na CLASS is)

Repitition in different senses

Ex: "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

Ex: "Stops static before static stops you."

Antithesis

(an TI the sis)

repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtraposition

Ex: "You're easy on the eyes
Hard on the heart."

Asyndeton

(a SYN de ton)

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

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

Auxesis

(aux EE sis)

Arrangement by ascending importance

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

Chiasmus

(ki AZ mus)

Repetition of ideas in inverted order

Ex:"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

Ellipsis

(el LIP sis)

Omission

Ex:"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

Epanorthosis

(EP a NOR tho sis)

Addition by correction (sometimes for of parenthesis)

Ex: "With a heave of his chest, Croker rose and came walking--or, rather, limping--toward him."

Epizeuxis

(EP i ZOOK sis)

Repetition immediately

Ex: "Shots, Shots, Shots...."- LMFAO

Erotema

(ER o TEEM a)

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

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

Isocolon

(i so COL on)

Repetition of grammatical forms

Ex: "It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking!"

Parenthesis

(pa REN the sis)

Addition of "pop-up" idea

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

Polysyndeton

(POL y SYN de ton)

Addition of conjunction

Ex:"[I]t is respectable to have no illusions--and safe--and profitable--and dull."

Zeugma

(ZEUG ma)

Omission of a verb from parallel clauses

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