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What does Anadiplosis mean?
Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase with the word that ended the last phrase.
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What does Aphorism mean?
An observation that contains a truth.
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What does Chiasmus mean?
Two phrases that mean the same but are worded differently.
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What does Isocolon mean?
Figure of speech split into two parts.
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What does Parallelism mean?
The repetition of two phrases/clauses in a sentence.
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What does Asyndeton mean?
Missing out conjunctions in a sentence.
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What does Anaphora mean?
Rhetorically speaking it means to repeat the same clause/phrase at the start of a sentence.
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What does Anachronism mean?
When an object or being is used in the wrong time period.
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An observation that contains a truth.

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What does Parallelism mean?

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