Inversion
| Occasionally, students protested at the unrelenting stress, and a few dropped out…(M.W.).
Upcamethefile and downsattheeditor, with Mr. Pickwick at his side (D.).
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Rhetorical
question
| Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? (Gr. Gr.)
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Ellipsis
| One step forward, one step back (J.C.).
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Repetition
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Ordinary
repetition
| There were big palms and the green benches in the public garden. …Artists liked the way the palms grew… (E. H.).
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Anaphora
a… .a… .a
| …Her favourite flowers filled the room. Her clothes were in the wardrobes in her room. Her brushes were on the table (D. du M.).
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Epiphora
…a. …a. …a.
| It was made of bronze and glistened intherain. …The sea broke in a long line intherain (E. H.).
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Framing
a,,,,a
| Heranawayfromthebattle. He was an ordinary human being that didn’t want to kill or be killed, so heranawayfromthebattle (St. H.).
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Anadiplosis/
catch repetition
…a. a …
| Hopeless minutes turned into hours, hours into days… (J.A.).
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Chain repetition
| Failure meant poverty, poverty meant squalor, squalor led, in the final stages, to the smells and stagnation (D.du M.).
At first he looked shocked. Then, as realization hit him, he began to smile, the smile grew into grin, the grin worked its way into laughter (C.A.).
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Parallelism
| “If you are sorrowful, let me know why, and be sorrowful too; if you waste away and you are paler and weaker every day, let me be your nurse and try to comfort you. If you are poor, let us be poor together; but let me be with you” (D.).
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Chiasmus
| There are somanysons who won’t have anything to do with their
fathers, and somanyfathers who won’t speak to their sons (O. W.).
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Polysyndeton
| And the coach, and the coachman, and the horses, and rattled, and jangled, and whipped, and cursed, and swore, and tumbled on together, till they came to Golden Square (D.).
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Asyndeton
| Through his brain, slowly sifted the things they had done together. Walking together. Dancing together. Sitting silent together. Watching people together (P. A.).
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Suspense
| “… The day on which I take the happiest and best step of my life – the day on which I shall be a man more exulting and more enviable than any other man in the world – the day on which I give the Bleak House its little mistress – shall be next month, then,” said my guardian (D.).
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