| A | B |
|---|
| anecdote | short narrative account |
| assonance | similar vowel sounds |
| polysyndeton | excessive use of conjunctions |
| antithesis | opposing ideas in adjacent phrases |
| sententia | a wise, witty, or pithy maxim |
| exemplum | an example to illustrate a point |
| affirmation pattern | a series of questions meant for head nods |
| negative definition | statement of what something is not |
| hypophora | raising and responding to a question |
| symploce | repetition of the first and last words in successive clauses |
| synecdoche | part of something is used for the whole of that thing |
| quotation | exact repetition of another person’s words |
| repetition | additional occurrences of the exact same phrase |
| epanalepsis | same phrase at beginning and end of a clause |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| antimetabole | repeating a phrase in reverse order |
| anaphora | parallelism with repetition at the beginning of phrases |
| epistrophe | parallelism with repetition at the end of phrases |
| parallelism | repeated grammatical structure |
| allusion | brief reference to history, religion, mythology, etc. |
