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Anadiplosis
Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause
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Antimetabole
- Repetition of words in reverse grammatical order
- "One should eat to live, not live to eat"
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Anastrophe
- inversion of hte natural or usual word order
- "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"
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Epistrophe
Repetition of the same word or group of wordss at the ends of clauses
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Epanalepsis
- Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occured at the beginning of a clause
- "strenth matched with strength"
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Anaphora
- Repetition of the same word(s) at the beginning of successive clauses
- "We shall ..., we shall...,"
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Apposition
- placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first
- "The mountain was the earth, her home"
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Antithesis
- Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel stucture
- "What if I am rich, and another is poor?"
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