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- the recurrence of initial consonant sounds. The repetition can be juxtaposed (and then it is usually limited to two words)
- Alliteration
- a short, informal reference to a famous person or event
- Allusion
- compares two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea or object by showing how the idea or object is similar to some familiar one. While simile and analogy often overlap, t
- Analogy
- establishes a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure. Human beings are inveterate systematizers and categorizers, so the mind has a natural love for antithesis, which cr
- Antithesis
- interrupts the discussion or discourse and addresses directly a person or personified thing, either present or absent. Its most common purpose in prose is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back:
- Apostrophe
- similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants:
- Assonance
- consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list of items, asyndeton gives the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account:
- Asyndeton
- might be called "reverse parallelism," since the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order. Instead of an A,B structure (e.g., "learned unwillingly") paralleled by ano
- Chiasmus
- gradatio) consists of arranging words, clauses, or sentences in the order of increasing importance, weight, or emphasis. Parallelism usually forms a part of the arrangement, because it offers a sense of continuity, order, and movement-up the ladder of im
- Climax
- a noun or noun substitute placed next to (in apposition to) another noun to be described or defined by the appostive. the apposition can be placed before or after the noun.
- Apposotove