Repetition rhetoric devices

Felicia knows your secret, Barry knows your secret, my parents know your secret—so why can’t I know your secret?

• Anaphora

• polyptoton

• epiphora

• symploce

It rained all morning, it rained all afternoon, and it rained all night.

• Anaphora

• Epiphora

• Symploce

• Polyptoton

Gerald studied last night, just as he promised. Gerald went to school today, just as he promised. And Gerald aced the exam, just as he promised.

• Anaphora

• Epiphora

• Polyptoton

• Symploce

Chemistry is so confusing. Chemistry is so exasperating. And chemistry is so dull.

• Anaphora

• Epiphora

• Symploce

• Polyptoton

If you need to talk, call me. If you need advice, call me. If you need a laugh, call me.

• Anaphora

• Epiphora

• Polyptoton

• Symploce

The love of wicked men converts to fear;

That fear to hate; and hate turns one, or both,

To worthy danger, and deserved death.

• Anaphora

• polyptoton

• Anadiplosis

• Synploce

I balanced all, brought all to mind,

The years to come seemed waste of breath,

A waste of breath the years behind

In balance with this life, this death

• Anaphora

• Anadiplosis

• Epiphora

• Symploce

You’re so full of trickery! Playing tricks on me!

• Anaphora

• Anadiplosis

• Epiphora

• Polyptoton

To be ignorant of one’s ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

• Anaphora

• Polyptoton

• symploce

• anadiplosis

“Give me liberty or give me death.”

• Anaphora

• epiphora

• anadiplosis

• symploce