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Anaphora
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Repetition of a specific word usually at the begining of successive phrases, clauses or lines
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Aposiopesis
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Abrupt break in sentence, an unfinished thought with implied meaning
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Apostrophe
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A "turning away" from one person to address another, often to address an absent or personified object
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Asyndeton
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The omission of connectors in a closely related series in order to impress the reader by a rapid statement of ideas
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Chiasmus
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A criss cross patterning of words often nouns and adjectives in the arrangement ABBA
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Ellipsis
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Omission of easily understood or assumed word in order to avoid repetition, to secure rapidity of narration, or to accomodate the requirements of meter
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Enjambment
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In verse, the building of suspense by postponing to the next line a significant word or words related to previous line
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Hendiadys
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The use of two nouns connected by a conjunction and having the meaning of a single modified noun
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Hyperbaton
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A significant distortion of normal word order, seperation of words that logically belong next to each other
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Hyperbole
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Exaggeration for emphasis or rhetorical effect, overstatment
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Hysteron proteron
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Reversal of normal or expected sequence of events in order to put the more important idea , which would logically come later, first
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Litotes
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An understatment or double negative
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Metonymy
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Use of one noun for another which it suggests
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Pleonasm
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Use of redundant or unnecessary words
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Polyptoton
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Repetition of word, but in a different form
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