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Rhetorical techniques for memorable sentences

August 25, 2022 ยท by Jan Schultink
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This is a nice Twitter thread:

  1. Polyptoton The repeated use of words with the same root, like destroy, destroyer, and destroyed.
  2. Anadiplosis The repetition of the last word of a clause at the beginning of the next.
  3. Anaphora The use of the same word or words at the start of successive clauses or sentences.
  4. Epizeuxis The immediate repetition of a word or phrase.
  5. Epanalepsis The repetition of a word at the start and end of a clause.
  6. Antithesis The use (and contrast) of two opposing ideas in a single clause or sentence.
  7. Aysndeton The omission of a conjunction (e.g. and, or) from a series of related clauses.
  8. Anastrophe The inversion of normal word order.

Read through the entire thread by @culturaltutor to see examples.

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