Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses.
What is Parallelism?
100
Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.
What is an Epistrophe? (hopefully I'm spelling these right because the computer just says that these aren't even real words anyways)
100
Asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely.
What is an Erotema? (...that just doesn't sound school appropriate)
100
Exercise physiologists argue that body-jump aerobics sessions benefit a person's heart and lungs, muscles and nerves, and joints and cartilage.
What is this Zeugma thing?
100
What is the overarching purpose behind using any of these fancy-shmancy schemes? Seems like a lot of work, doesn't it?
To stand out from the rest of the writing and to clearly make a point of something, to make your words "pop off the page".
200
More than one item in a sentence is governed by a single word, usually a verb.
What is a Zeugma? (seriously word check says it's spelled wrong, is this even a real word?)
200
Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause, often used to highlight a cause-effect relationship.
What is an Anadiplosis? (who comes up with these terms anyways?)
200
Asking a question in order to reproach or upbraid, rather than to elicit information. (That still doesn't make sense...)
What is an Epiplexis?
200
"...And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."-Abe Lincoln
What's the deal with Asyndetons?
300
Inversion of the natural or usual word order.
What is an Anastrophe?
300
Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.
What is an Antimetabole?
300
When the parallel elements are similar not only in structure but also in length. (parallelism-ception over here...)
What is an Isocolon?
300
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."-JFK
What is an Antimetabole?
400
Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses (or single words or phrases-brachylogia).
What is an Asyndeton?
400
Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses.
What is a Chaismus?
400
Stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.
What is a Polysyndeton?
400
His time a moment, and his point a space.
What is a Chiasmus?
500
Repetition of initial or medial consonants or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables, especially stressed syllables.
What is an Anaphora?
500
Asking a question and immediately answering it in order to demonstrate authority. (Respect mah authoritay)
What is a Hypophora?
500
Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more...
What is Love?
500
The emotional isolation, the preoccupation with God and themselves, the struggles for freedom, which seem to have possessed many of my friends at the same age, I know almost nothing of.