Metabasis – This is a brief statement that sums up what has already been said and what will follow. For example, “Thus, I’ve proven that Hamlet is not necessarily the most perfect of Shakespeare’s tragedies, and now I need to prove why Macbeth is.” Obviously, in a short paper, this device will rarely be useful. This device is primarily useful toward the middle of longer essays.
There are four other types of transitions if you are a die-hard grammarian: procatelpsis, hypophora anadiplosis, and conduplicatio.
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