the similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.
What is parallelism?
100
to emphasize a set of words by removing words that can be implied from the context.
What are Ellipses used for?
100
"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?
100
the deliberate omission of a word or of words that are readily implied by the context.
What is Ellipsis?
100
the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses.
What is Anaphora?
200
the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure.
What is Antithesis
200
used to produce a hurried rhythm in a sentence.
What are asyndetons used for?
200
"Exercise physiologists argue that body-pump aerobics sessions benefit a person's heart and lungs, muscles and nerves, and joints and cartilage."
What is an example of zeugma?
200
deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses
What is Asyndeton?
200
the repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.
What is Epistrophe?
300
when more than one item in a sentence is governed by a single word, usually a verb.
What is Zeugma?
300
to emphasize through the use of repeated use of similar syllables
What is Alliteration used for?
300
"Kant, we may suppose, was more, startled, by Hume's apparent destruction of all basis for philosophical certainty; Reid, by the remoter consequences to morality and theology."
What is an example of Ellipsis?
300
deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of single words or phrases
What is Brachylogia?
300
the 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 Anadiplosis?
400
the inversion of the natural or usual word order
What is Anastrophe?
400
to stress the importance of the controlling verb.
What is zeugma used for?
400
"... and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
What is an example of Asyndeton?
400
The deliberate use of conjunctions.
What is polysyndeton?
400
the repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.
What is Antimetabole?
500
the insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence.
What is Parenthesis?
500
to produce the effect of aphoristic neatness
What is antithesis used for?
500
"Alliteration is actually amazingly awesome."
What is an example of Alliteration?
500
the repetition of initial or medial consonants or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables, especially stressed syllables
What is Alliteration?
500
the reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses.