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Alliteration
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Repetition of sounds
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Allusion
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Reference to something else that should already be known
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Anadiplosis
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When you end a sentence of a clause with a word and the next one begins with the exact same word
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Analogy
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Comparison to relate a new idea to an old idea
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Anaphora
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The repetition of words or phrase at the beginning of several successive versus clauses or paragraph When you.. When your children... When you
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Anastrophe
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Figure of speech in which natural word order is reversed "yoda talk"
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Antithesis
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The contrast of ideas, balance, phrases or clauses"it was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
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Aphorism
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A short witty statement about life
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Apostrophe
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A rhetorical device in which a speaker addresses an absent person or thing
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Asydeton
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The omission of conjunctions from constructions separate things with a comma or semicolon
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Catachresis
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A strained metaphor(makes absolutely no sense)
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Chiasmus
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Repetition of grammatical structures in reverse order"ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country"
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Concatenation
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Stringing of things together of an ideaa link thoughout your writing
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Double entendre
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Two meanings second meaning is usually sexual
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Echo transition
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The theme is echoed throughout the paper
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