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Repetition of beginnings
"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." |
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Arrangement by reversal of order
"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer." |
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Repetition in different senses
"If you don’t look good, we don’t look good."
"People on the go . . . go for Coke." |
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Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." |
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Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition
"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books." |
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Omission of conjunctions from clauses
"Fires are burning, horses are snorting, chestnuts are roasting. Children race through a stone maze, others drink hot chocolate." |
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| Arrangement by ascending importance |
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