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Figures of Speech- Christina Wilcox
Definitions of Figures of Speech
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11th Grade
02/15/2012

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Anaphora

Definition

Repetition of beginnings

 

Ex: "Sir Walter Raleigh. Good food. Good cheer. Good times."

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Anastrophe

 

Definition

Arrangement by reversal of order

 

Ex: "Intelligent she was not. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction."

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Antanaclasis
Definition

Repitition in different senses

 

Ex: "If you don’t look good, we don’t look good."

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Antimetabole
Definition

Repitition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order.

 

Ex:"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us."

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Antithesis
Definition

Repitition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

 

Ex: "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

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Asyndeton
Definition

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

 

Ex: "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."

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Auxesis
Definition

Arrangement by ascending impotance

 

Ex: "It's a well hit ball, it's a long drive, it might be, it could be, it IS . . . a home run."

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Chiasmus
Definition

Repitition of ideas in inverted order

 

Ex:"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
 

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Ellipsis
Definition

Omission

 

Ex: "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

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Epanorthosis
Definition

Addition by correction (sometimes form of parenthesis)

 

Ex: "Maybe there is a beast. . . . What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us."

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Epizeuxis
Definition

Repitition immediately

 

Ex:"Give me a break! Give me a break! Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar!"

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Erotema
Definition

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

 

Ex: "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"

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Isocolon
Definition

Repitition of grammatical forms

 

Ex: "It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking!"

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Polysyndeton
Definition

Addition of conjunctions

 

Ex: "[I]t is respectable to have no illusions--and safe--and profitable--and dull."

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Zeugma
Definition

Ommision of a verb from parallel clauses

 

Ex: "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."

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