Vernacular Discourse
  • Figures & Schemes
    • Similarity and Difference >
      • Analogy & Simile
      • Antithesis & Chiasmus
      • Fable & Allegory
      • Metaphor
      • Metonymy & Synecdoche
      • Personification
      • Synesthesia
      • Transferred Epithet
    • Expansion & Contraction >
      • Amplification & Depreciation
      • Apposition & Parenthesis
      • Enargia
      • Euphemism & Dysphemism
      • Hyperbole & Litotes
      • Rhetorical Question
    • Music and Repetition >
      • Alliteration & Assonance
      • Anadiplosis & Hyperbaton
      • Anaphora & Epistrophe
      • Asyndeton & Polysyndeton
      • Parallelism & Isocolon
      • Repetition
      • Short & Simple Words & Styles
      • Tricolon
    • Play and Mischief >
      • Irony & Sarcasm
      • Parodox, Oxymoron & Aphorism
      • Parody & Satire
      • Ridicule
      • Wordplay
  • Short Introduction
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Figures of music and repetition express ideas rhythmically, symmetrically and memorably.

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Alliteration & Assonance
And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before -
E.A. Poe

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Anadiplosis & Hyperbaton

One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day - Aristotle

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Anaphora & Epistrophe
And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth - Abraham Lincoln

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Asyndeton & Polysyndeton
I came, I saw, I conquered  - Julius Caesar

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Parallelism & Isocolon
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings
- Shakespeare

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Repetition

Repetition is the mother of memory - Roman proverb

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Short & Simple Words & Styles

Shorter words…appeal with greater force - Winston Churchill

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Tricolon

Liberté
, égalité, fraternité

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