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Oral Communications Diff.
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The same words and two independent clauses but in reversed or changed order.
“Repetition of certain words in reverse order.”
EXAMPLE: “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”
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The rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences; the second stage of a dialectic process.
“The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting words or phrases.”
EXAMPLE: “Action, not words.” OR “When pigs fly.” OR “When hell freezes over.”
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Passing on to the strongest word after advancing through milder ones.
“Going through milder words to get to the strongest word at the end of the sentence.”
EXAMPLE: “The continuance of anger is hatred; the continuance of hatred turns to malice.”
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When two words that have the opposite meaning of each other are put together in one sentence.
“A contradiction of words.”
EXAMPLE: “Alone together.” OR “Pretty ugly.” OR “Jumbo shrimp.”
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Repetition of the last word in one line or clause to begin the next.
“The same word in a sentence and it begins the next sentence. You repeat the last word or phrase of the sentence in the beginning of the next.”
EXAMPLE: “To beg your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you.” OR “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
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The repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, sentences, or clauses.
“The same word being repeated at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row.”
EXAMPLE: “He laughed at you. He laughed at me. He laughed at us all.”
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Using a word in substitution for an original word. (Slang.)
“Substituting a descriptive word for a proper name. (Nickname.)”
EXAMPLE: “Strawberry.” OR “CAT Nyberg.” OR “Mr. Right.”
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The direct address of some abstract quality or nonexistent person.
EXAMPLE: “Hello, Darkness, my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.” OR “Blue moon, you saw me standing alone, without a dream in a my heart, without a love of my own.” (Songs use this a lot.)
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A scheme where conjunctions are omitted from a series of related causes.
“A list of words or phrases as examples.”
EXAMPLE: “I came. I saw. I conquered. OR “I like Jewish, French, and wheat bread.”
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A figure of speech in which a series is in a certain order.
“Progression from lesser to a greater degree of quality or quantity.”
EXAMPLE: “I began by sitting in a chair, then driving a car, then BAM! I was at the controls of a spaceship.”