Definitions
Definitions
Definitions
Examples
Purpose
100
Isocolon
When parallel elements are similar not only in structure but also in length?
100
Ellipsis
Deliberate omission of a word or of words that are readily implied by the context.
100
Antimetabole
Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.
100
Antimetabole
"Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country"
100
Parallelism
What is the principle that demands that equivalent elements be set forth in coordinating grammatical structures.
200
Antithesis
Juxtapostition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure?
200
Asyndeton
Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses.
200
Chiasmus
Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses.
200
Chiasmus
His time at this moment and a point his space.
200
AntiThesis
What is related to the topics of dissimilarity and contraries?
300
Zeugma
More than one item in a sentence is governed by a single word, usually a verb.
300
Anaphora
Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses
300
Erotema
Asking a question not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely.
300
Erotema
"What is wrong with you?!"
400
Anastrophe
Inversion of the natural or usual word order.
400
Epistrophe
Repetition of the same word or group of words at the END of successive clauses.
400
Hypophora
Asking a question and immediately answering it in order to demonstrate authority.
400
Alliteration
Peter piper ate a pumpkin full of plums.
400
Parenthesis
What is the device that gives the reader a glimpse at the author's voice, commenting, and editing?
500
Parenthesis
Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence.
500
Anadiplosis
Repetition of last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause often used to highlight a cause-effect relationship.
500
Epiplexis
Asking a question in order to reproach or upbraid, rather than to elicit information.
500
Anaphora
I have a dream... I have a dream... I have a dream... etc
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