Example sentence
Definition
Purpose
100
Anadiplosis
What is "Hard work and determination earn success: success earns trophies; trophies earn happy coaches whom provide easy practice."?
100
Zeugma
What is the use of stress on the importance of the controlling verd?
200
Epistrophe
What is "Basketball is difficult, homework is difficult, and complete relaxation is difficult: the lives of students are difficult."?
200
Anastrophe
What is inversion of the natural or unusual word order?
200
Alliteration
What is often used for emphasis and sometimes used for humorous effect?
300
Chiasmus
What is "His nose a dog, and a fur his coat."?
300
Asyndeton
What is deliberate omission of conjunction between a series of related clauses (or single words/phrases)?
300
Epiplexis
What is used for providing information in question form?
400
Hypophora
What is "Who is the weakest team in the NFL? Broncos!"?
400
Antimetabole
What is repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order?
400
Erotema (rhetorical question)
What is used for asserting or denying something obliquely?
500
Parallelism
What is "It is know that frogs hop to the lake, dogs run in the water, and horses gallop in the pasture."?
500
Polysyndeton
What is the deliberate use of conjunctions?
500
Epistrophe
What is used to create a pronounced rhythm but secures a special emphasis?
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