An interruption of the normal flow of a sentence using dashes or parentheses to provide necessary, on-the-spot information or ideas to readers
Exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect
The repetition of one or several words; specifically, repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next
Reasoning that begins with particular facts and tries to prove a general conclusion
The deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses
A question designed not to secure an answer but to move the development of an idea forward
An entity is referred to by one of its attributes
One part of speech, usually a verb, substitutes for another, usually a noun
An apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another
The opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
A sentence structure in which the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is the reversal of the first and in which words are repeated in different grammatical forms
The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses
More than one item in a sentence is governed by a single word, usually a verb
Repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words
Is any omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of the passage
The use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part
A construction in which two coordinating elements are set side by side, and the second explains or modifies the first