- Anaphora. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
- Epiphora. Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.
- Epizeuxis or palilogia. The repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence, for vehemence or emphasis.
- Parallelism. Rhetorical device that compounds words or phrases that have equivalent meanings so as to create a definite pattern.
- Isocolon. Succession of phrases, clauses, or sentences of approximately equal length and corresponding structure.
- Tricolon. Series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses.
- Antithesis. Pairing of opposite ideas. Contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences.
- Chiasmus. Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses –but no repetition of words.
- Juxtaposition. Placing two things side by side so as to highlight their differences.
- Diacope. Repetition of a word or phrase that is broken up by a single intervening word, or a small number of intervening words
- Anadiplosis. Repetition of the last word of a preceding clause. The word is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence.
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Rhetoric structures
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