| A | B |
|---|
| "Love is positive; tolerance negative. Love involves passion; tolerance is humdrum and dull. | balanced structure |
| To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of common power, to lament the past... | parallel structure |
| Not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more | antithesis |
| And I'll look out for you, and you'll sign out as soon as you see me, and we'll go down the street arm in arm, and into all the shops, and then I'll choose your house... | freight-train |
| At the feed of the tallest and plushiest offices lie the crummiest slums | inverted (also antithesis) |
| We shall not flag or fall. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight. | anaphora |
| We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another. | epistrophe |
| That large forces can be defeated by smaller forces superior in arms, organization, morale, and spirit is one important lesson of history. | periodic sentence |
| History has amply proved that large forces can be defeated by smaller forces superior in arms, organization, morale, and spirit. | loose sentence |
| We shall pay any price, bear any burdent, meet any hardships, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. | asyndeton |
| Unable to make up his mind about what to have for dinner, the young man ordered steak and hamburger and spaghetti and baked potato | polysyndeton |
| The dog is not small; the dog is huge. | negative-positive construction |
| I think we've all arrived at a very special place. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically. | tricolon |
| You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget | antimetabole |
| His time a moment, and a point his space | chiasmus without repetition of same words |
| Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you | chiasmus with repetition of same words |
| The pizza delivery boy, no matter how late, expected a hefty tip | convoluted structure |
| After digging a hole, I planted the tree, which was large and hard to manage | centered structure |
| Blood hath bought blood, and blows have answer'd blows | epanalepsis |
| You must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control | anadiplosis |
