REPEAT FIGURE LITERARY FIGURES or RHETORICAL FIGURES are classified into 5 groups : 1 . DICTION FIGURES, 2. ORDER FIGURES , 3 . THOUGHT FIGURES, 4. MEANING FIGURES and 5 . PICTURESQUE or descriptive FIGURES . Within the diction group, with 4 subgroups, 1. 1 transformation or metaplasm, 1 . 2 repetition, 1. 3 omission and 1. 4 position. The largest subgroup is THE REPEAT FIGURES, at least 27 types, which consists of repeating a word, phrase or other grammatical form within a poem or discourse, in order to highlight or beautify the message. They are as follows : 1 . 2 . 1 Alliteration 1 . 2 . 2 Anadiplosis , Concatenation , or Conduplication1 . 2 . 3 Amphora1 . 2 . 4 Anonimatio1 . 2 . 5 Cacophony1 . 2 . 6 Complexion[ , /E]1 . 2 . 7 Correlation[ , /E]1 . 2 . 8 Derivatio1 . 2 . 9 Diaphanal or Dilogy or Double Sense1 . 2 . 10 Epanadiplosis1 . 2 . 11 Epiphore or Epistrophe1 . 2 . 12 Erquivoc or Antanaclasis1 . 2 . 13 Gradation or Climax1 . 2 . 14 Antithylímax1 . 2 . 15 Isocolon1 . 2 . 16 Parallelism1 . 2 . 17 Pleonasm or Redundancy 1 . 2 . 18 Polisíndeton or Conjunction or Ditology or Síndeton1 . 2 . 19 Paranomasia1 . 2 . 20 Parison1 . 2 . 21 Polypote or Polyptoton or Etymological Figure or Derivation1 . 2 . 22 Re-application1 . 2 . 23 Gemination1 . 2 . 24 Quiasmo , Antimetábola , Antimetalepsis or Antimetástasis1 . 2 . 25 Retruecano , Switching or Switching1 . 2 . 26 Similcadencia or Asonance1 . 2 . 27 Traductio