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| Juxtaposition | Placing of two items side by side to create a certain effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose |
| Parallelism | Recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that the ideas in the parts or sentences equal in importance. It also adds balance, rhythm, and clarity to the sentence. For example, "I have always searched for, but never found the perfect painting for that wall." |
| Anaphora | regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses. For example, "We shall fight in the trenches. We shall fight on the oceans. We shall fight in the sky." |
| Imagery | Sensory details in a work; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object. Imagery involves any or all of the five senses |
| Mood | The feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude and point of view. The effect is created through descriptions of feelings or objects that establish a particular feeling such as gloom, fear, or hope |
| balanced sentence | phrases or clauses are balanced because of their like structure, meaning, or length |
| repetition | words, sounds, ideas used more than once to create emphasis |
| rhetorical question | not requiring an answer, to make a point |
| rhetorical fragment | used to make a point, or creat a desired effect |
| example of rhetorical question | Are you stupid? |
| example of rhetorical fragment | Enough. That is enough. |
| example of balanced sentence | "He maketh me lie down....; he leadeth me...." |
| example of parallelism | He loved swimming, running, and jumping |
| example of juxtaposition | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." |
