Enallage (e-nal’-la-ge): The substitution of grammatically different but semantically equivalent constructions.
Today, a burst of winter weather is slowing the whole US–from Maine to Montana, from Phoenix to Tallahassee–an icer snower fogger blower.
Now, let’s see what’s happening in your neck of the woods!
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
Traductio (tra-duk’-ti-o): Repeating the same word variously throughout a sentence or thought. Some authorities restrict traductio further to mean repeating the same word but with a different meaning (see ploce, antanaclasis, and diaphora), or in a different form (=polyptoton. . . . ). If the repeated word occurs in parallel fashion at the beginnings of phrases or clauses, it becomes anaphora; at the endings of phrases or clauses, epistrophe.
Hope for rain and hope will reign even if it doesn’t rain!
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Ecphonesis (ec-pho-nee’-sis): An emotional exclamation.
Wow! What a beautiful day!
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