When more than one item in a sentence is governed by a single work, usually a verb
What is a zeugma?
100
Labor and care are rewarded with success, success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry...
What is an example of anadiplosis?
100
Often used to highlight a cause-effect relationship
What is the purpose of anadiplosis?
100
Asking a question, not to elicit an answer but to assert or deny obliquely
What is erotema?
100
He is asked to stand, he wants to sit, he is expected to lie
What is an example of isocolon?
200
The deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses (or single words or phrases-brachylogia)
What is asyndeton?
200
Who taught me to curl inside myself a buttercup? Iolanthe!
What is an example of hypophora?
200
Used to assert or deny something obliquely
What is the purpose of erotema (rhetorical question)?
200
When parallel elements are similar in not only structure but also in length
What is isocolon?
200
...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth
What is an example of asyndeton?
300
Using repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses
What is epistrophe?
300
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
What is an example of antithesis?
300
Stresses the importance of the controlling verb
What is the purpose of zeugma?
300
Inversion of the natural word order or usual word order
What is anastrophe?
300
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot
What is an example of anaphora?
400
The repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order
What is antimetabole?
400
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
What is an example of anastrophe?
400
Used to secure emphasis
What is the purpose of anastrophe?
400
Asking a question and immediately answering it in order to demonstrate authority
What is hypophora?
400
Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country
What is an example of antimetabole?
500
The reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses or phrases
What is chiasmus?
500
So singularly clear was the water that when it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom seemed floating in the air!
What is an example of ellipsis?
500
Used to send a thought off on a tangent, abruptly and usually briefly
What is the purpose of parenthesis?
500
Asking a question in order to reproach or upbraid, rather than to elicit information