Anaphora

Repetition of begginings

"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country."

Anastrophe

Arrangement by reversal of order

"Ready are you? What know you of ready?"

Antanaclasis

Repetition if different sences

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."

Antimetabole

Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order.

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

Antithesis

Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition.

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

Asyndeton

Omission of conjunctions from clauses.

"I have found the warm caves in te woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods."

Auxesis

Arrangment by ascending importance.

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

Chaismus

Repetition of ideas in inverted order.

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

"fair is foul, and foul is fair."

Ellipsis

Omission.

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

"The streets were deserted, the doors bolted."

Epanorthosis

Addition by correction

(sometimes form of parenthesis)

"Wit a heave of his chest, Crocker rose and came walking--or, rather limping--tward him."

"You don't think we're being ... I don't want to say 'sleazy,' because that's not the right word, but a little irresponsible maybe?"

Epizeuxis

Epizeuxis

"I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam."

Erotema

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point.

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

Isocolon

Repetition of grammatical forms.

"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!"

Parenthesis

Addition of "pop-up" idea.

"My very photographic mother died in a freak accident (panic, lightning) when I was thee."

Polysydeton

Addition of conjuctions.

"It is respectable to have no illusions--and safe--and profitable--and dull."

Zeugma

Omission of a verb from parallel clauses.

"She arrived in a taxi and a flaming range."

"He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men."