Figures of Repetition - Words
Epizeuxis :Emphatic repetition of a word with no other words between
Polyptoton : Repetition of the same word or root in different grammatical functions or forms
Antanaclasis : Repetition of a word, but in two different meanings
Anaphora : Repetition of a word at the beginning of a clause, line, or sentence
Epistrophe : Repetition of a word at the end of a clause, line, or sentence
Symploce : Repetition of both beginnings and endings
Epanalepsis : Repetition of the beginning at the end
Anadiplosis : Repetition of the end of a line or clause at the next beginning
Gradatio : Repeating anadiplosis
Congeries : A heaping together and piling up of many words that have a similar meaning
Antimetabole : Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order; a chiasmus on the level of words - AB-,-BA
Pleonasm : The needless repetition of words; a tautology on the level of a phrase
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Figures of Repetition - Clauses and Ideas
Auxesis : Arrangement of clauses or sentences in ascending order of importance
Isocolon : Repetition of phrases or clauses of equal length and corresponding grammatical structure
Tautology : Needless repetition of the same idea in different words; pleonasm on the level of a sentence or sentences
Chiasmus : Reversal of grammatical structures or ideas in sucessive phrases or clauses, which do not necessarily involve a repetition of words
Antithesis : Repetition of clauses or ideas by negation
Periphrasis : The replacement of a single word by several which together have the same meaning; a substitution of more words for less
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Figures of Unusual Word Order
Anastrophe : Arrangment by reversal of ordinary word order, usually confined to the transposition of two words only
Hyperbaton : Departure from ordinary word order
Hysteron Proteron : Reversal of temporal order
Hypallage : A reversal of words which seems to change the sense
Parenthesis : A word, phrase, or sentence inserted as an aside in a sentence complete by itself
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Figures of Thought
Adynaton : The impossibility of expressing oneself adequately to the topic
Aporia : True or feigned doubt or deliberation about an issue
Correctio : A correction or revision of previous words
Prosopopoeia : Representing an imaginary or absent person as speaking or acting; attributing life, speech or inanimate qualities to dumb or inanimate objects
Apostrophe : A diversion of discourse from the topic at hand to addressing some person or thing, either present or absent
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By : Grant Williams