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Anadiplosis

A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

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Repetition 76% connected

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

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Reduplication 92% connected

The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Allocution noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts

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Exordium noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse

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Narration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

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Parenesis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) exhortation; admonition.; "In Deuteronomy it is often impossible to separate parenesis from history."

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Peroration noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration"

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Ploce noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) repetition to gain special emphasis or extend meaning

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Tapinosis noun · 78% connection

(rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.; "The last and perhaps t…

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Counterargument noun · 78% connection

an argument offered in opposition to another argument

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Rhetorical device noun · 78% connection

a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)

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Rhetorical question noun · 78% connection

a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered; "he liked to make his points with rhetorical que…

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Analogy noun · 78% connection

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…

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Anaphora noun · 78% connection

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

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Antithesis noun · 78% connection

exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine"

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Chiasmus noun · 78% connection

inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

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Commiseration noun · 78% connection

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"

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Correspondence noun · 78% connection

similarity by virtue of corresponding

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Doctrine of analogy noun · 78% connection

the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greate…

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Epanaphora noun · 78% connection

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

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Adjective noun · 78% connection

Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.

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After preposition · 78% connection

Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and…

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Alliteration noun · 78% connection

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as i…

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Amid preposition · 78% connection

See Amidst.

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And conj. · 78% connection

A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, o…

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Antanaclasis noun · 78% connection

A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has a…

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Antimetathesis noun · 78% connection

A rhetorical figure resulting from a reverted arrangement in the last clause of a sentence of the two principal words of the clause pr…

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Apodosis noun · 78% connection

The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clau…

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Clause noun · 78% connection

A group of words built around a verb, often with a subject.

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Complin noun · 78% connection

The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer o…

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Coordinate clause noun · 78% connection

a clause in a complex sentence that is grammatically equivalent to the main clause and that performs the same grammatical function

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Dependent adjective · 78% connection

(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or…

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