the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, or words.
What is parallelism?
100
a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought
What are parenthesis?
100
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
100
to create curiosity among the readers
What is hypophora?
100
"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."
What is asyndeton?
200
a succession of sentences, phrases and clauses of grammatically equal length
What is an isocolon?
200
a word or words that are able to be understood from contextual clues.
What is an ellipsis?
200
the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences
What is an epistrophe?
200
to lead the audience to a conclusion that the writer wants them to reach
What is erotema?
200
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
What is chiasmus?
300
an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of each other
What is an antithesis?
300
the absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence
What is an asyndeton?
300
repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause
What is an anadiplosis?
300
used to create a dramatic effect in a sentence
What is zeugma?
300
"If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?"
What is erotema?
400
a word applies to two others in different senses
What is a zeugma?
400
several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect
What is polysyndeton?
400
is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order
What is an antimentabole?
400
help a writer highlight or emphasize information or make a point
What is parallelism?
400
"I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth".
What is epistrophe?
500
the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses
What is an anastrophe?
500
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
What is an anaphora?
500
words or grammatical constructions are repeated in reverse order in the same or a modified form
What is chiasmus?
500
to give all kinds of writing rhythm, emphasis, and momentum