A. The placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas.

B. "Give me Liberty or give me Death"

(The Colonist that had settled in the New World)

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A. The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way

B. "She arrived in a taxi and a flaming rage."

(John Lyons, Semantics  Cambridge Univ. Press 1977)

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A. The act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side.

B. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.

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A. The repitition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more sucessive verses, clauses, or sentences.

B. "Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and the ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed" I have A Dream, Martin Luther King Jr.

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A. a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part

B. "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"

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A. The repitition of words in sucessive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

B. "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Isaiah 5:20

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A. A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.

B. "In the end the, the true tests is not the speeches a president delivers; it's whether the president delivers on the speeches."

(Hillary Clinton , March 2008)

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A. a recurrent syntactical similarity. Several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed similarly to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences are equal in importance. Parallelism also adds balance and rhythm and, most importantly, clarity to the sentence.

B. For the end of a theoretical science is truth, but the end of a practical science is performance. –Aristotle

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A. similar vowel sounds repeated in successive or proximate words containing different consonants

B. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. --Matthew 5:14b (KJV)

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A. (also called antistrophe) forms the counterpart to anaphora, because the repetition of the same word or words comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

B. And all the night he did nothing but weep Philoclea, sigh Philoclea, and cry out Philoclea. --Philip Sidney

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A. Repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next. It can be generated in series for the sake of beauty or to give a sense of logical progression.

B. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. --Jer. 2:13

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A. In grammar and rhetoric, the omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader

B. "The streets were deserted, the doors bolted."(Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco, 1965)

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A. A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at regular intervals: a refrain.

B. "He is noticeable for nothing in the world except for the markedness by which he is noticeable for nothing.”
(Edgar Allan Poe, "The Literati of New York City." Godey's Lady's Book, Sep. 1846)

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A. the use of words alike in sound but different in meaning

B. "Curl Up and Dye"
(beauty salon in London)

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