Repetition
- Alliteration Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.
ex. The big bully beat up Billy Bob ):
- Assonance Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.
- Anaphora Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
ex. “My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.”
- Epistrophe Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.
- Anadiplosis Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.
- Chiasmus Repetition of grammatical structures in reverse order in successive phrases or clauses