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Alliteration – A series of words that begin with the same letter or sound alike •
Anaphora – The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses •
Anadiplosis – Repetition of a word at the end of a clause at the beginning of another •
Antanaclasis – Repetition of a word in two different senses •
Antimetabole – Repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse order •
Assonance – The repetition of vowel sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse •
Asyndeton – Lack of conjunctions •
Chiasmus – Reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses •
Climax – Repetition of the scheme anadiplosis at least three times, with the elements arranged in an order of increasing importance •
Epanalepsis – Repetition of the initial word or words of a clause or sentence at the end of the clause or sentence •
Epistrophe – The counterpart of anaphora: the repetition occurs at the
end of successive clauses. •
Consonance – The repetition of consonant sounds without the repetition of the vowel sounds •
Polyptoton – Repetition of words derived from the same root •
Polysyndeton – Repetition of conjunctions •
Symploce – Combination of anaphora and epistrophe ==See also==