Advanced syntax

deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses; it speed the pace of the sentence

• Asyndeton

• Ellipsis

• polysyndeton

• epanalepsis

omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.

• Asyndeton

• ellipsis

• epanalepsis

• epistrophe

stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.

• ellipsis

• anaphora

• antimetabole

• polysyndeton

rhetorical device that is the repetition of a word or phrase in successive clauses or phrases.

• asyndeton

• epanalepsis

• anaphora

• polysyndeton

form of repetition in which the last word of one clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the following clause or sentence.

• anadiplosis

• epanalepsis

• anaphora

• polysyndeton

figure of speech in which the beginning of a clause or sentence is repeated at the end of that same clause or sentence, with words intervening.

• anadiplosis

• epanalepsis

• anaphora

• polysyndeton

repetition of one or more words at the end of a phrase, clause, verse, or sentence.

• anadiplosis

• epistrophe

• anaphora

• polysyndeton

figure of speech in which words or clauses from the first half of a sentence are repeated in the second half of the sentence in reverse order

• anadiplosis

• epistrophe

• antimetabole

• polysyndeton