Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools"

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Poem or prose lamenting the death of a particular person

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"The bost of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r,

And all that beuaty, all that wealth e'er gave,

Awaits alike th' inevitable hour.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave"

Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."

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Sentence that exhorts, adives, calls to action

"Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us."[image]

Scheme of parallel structure which occurs when the parallel elements are similar if not only in grammatical structure but in length as well

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"First they ignore you, then they laught at you, then they fight you, then you win."

Repitition of words in successive clauses in reverse syntactic order

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"I, too, was born in the slum. But just because you're born in the slum does not mean the slum is born in you, and you can rise above it if your mind is made up."

Repitition of a word in two different senses

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"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm."