| Term | Definition |
|---|
| parallelism | corresponding grammatical structure/phrases |
| anastrophe | word order inversion |
| isocolon | "super parallelism"; think Dr. Seuss |
| listing | another term for simple parallelism |
| elipsis | "..." the deliberate omission of a word or words which are implied by the context |
| asyndeton | the omission of conjunctions between related clauses and phrases |
| apposition | placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which is an explanation |
| parenthesis | thrusting a verbal unit in the midst of another unit; set off by dashes, commas, or parenthesis; the speaker editorializes |
| polysyndenton | many conjunctions |
| anaphora | repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| epistrophe | the repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses |
| anadiplosis | repetition where the word ends one phrase and starts another; the "hiccup" scheme |
| epanalepsis | a word both ends and begins a scheme; the "bookends" scheme |
| antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order |
| climax | words or phrases placed in order of importance; scheme of amplification |
| chiasmus | flip of grammatical structure |
| polyptoton | the repetition of word derived from the same root |
Combine with other sets
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