Classical rhetorical devices

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These include anaphora (the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses), epistrophe (the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses), chiasmus (a rhetorical figure in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures), and antithesis (the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas or words).