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| similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses |
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| similarity not only of structure but of length |
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| the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure |
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| inversion of the natural or usual word order |
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| insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence |
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| placing side by side two co-ordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first |
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| the deliberate omission of a word or of words readily implied by the context |
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| deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series |
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| deliberate use of many conjunctions |
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| repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words |
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| the repetition of similar vowel forms, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words |
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| repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
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| repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses |
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| repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause |
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| repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause |
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| arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance |
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| repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order |
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| reversal of grammatical structures in a successive clauses (but no repetition of words) |
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| repetition of words derived from the same root |
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| implied comparison between two things of unlike nature |
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| explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature |
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| figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole |
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| substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant |
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| repetition of a word in two different senses |
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| use of words alike in sound but different in meaning |
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| use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs |
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| the substitution of one part of speech for another |
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| Periphrasis (antonomasia) |
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| substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name |
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| Personification (prosopopoeia) |
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| investing abstractions for inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities |
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| the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect |
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| deliberate use of understatement |
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| asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely |
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| use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word |
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| use of words whose sound echoes the sense |
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| the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory |
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| an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth |
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