| Term | Definition |
|---|
| parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses |
| isocolon | parallelism when even the number of syllables/words match (are parallel) |
| antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting idea often in parallel structure (words or ideas or both) |
| anastrophe | inversion of the natural or usual word order |
| elipsis | deliberate omission of a word or words which are readily implied by the context |
| asyndeton | deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses |
| apposition (appositive) | placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first |
| parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence |
| polysyndeton | deliberate use of many conjunctions |
| anaphora | repetition of the same words or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses --- a___. a___. |
| epistrophe | repetition of the same words or group of words at the end of successive clauses --- ___a. ___a. |
| anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause --- ___a. a___. |
| epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause --- a___a. |
| antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order, same words --- abc. cba. |
| climax | arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance |
| chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structure in successive phrases or clauses, not same words, just the grammatical structure itself ( the "criss cross") |
| polypton | repetition of words derived from the same root/different grammatically |
| synchrisis | comparison with "not...but..." |
| zeugma | elipsis, but with words established in first phrase and pulled out afterwards |
| dirimens copulatio | a series of minus/plus, not only/but also comparison |
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