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ICHS ap english language and composition 2012 midterm review
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English
11th Grade
12/19/2012

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Anadiplosis
Definition

repetition when the last word in one sentence (clause or phrase) is repeated at or near the begining of the next sentence (clause or phrase)

 

Example: "They call for you: The general who became a slave; the slavewho became a gladiator; the gladiator who defied an Emperor. Striking story."

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Anaphora
Definition

repetition when the first word or set of words in one sentence (clause or phrase) are repeated at or near the begining over several sentences (clauses or phrases)

 

Example: "We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."

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Anesis
Definition

when in two sentences (clauses or phrases), the second sentence (clause or phrase) diminishes the effect of the first

 

Example: You look pretty... for a fat person.

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Conduplicatio
Definition

repetition where the key word(s) of one sentence (clause or phrase) are repeated at or near the begining of the next sentence (clause or phrase)

 

Example: Drugs don't just destroy their victims; they destroy entire families, schools, and communities.

Term
epizeuxis
Definition

repetition for emphesis

 

Example: I already told you a thousand times! No, no, no!

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epanalepsis
Definition

repetition where word(s) are repeated at the begining and end of a sentence (clause or phrase)

 

Example: The time must come. It's enough -- enough to go to cemeteries, enough to weep for oceans -- it's enough.

Term
Epitheton
Definition

adjective; used to describe something

 

Examples: Good boy, Kind sir, Friendly person, ect.

Term
epistrophe
Definition

repetition when the last word (or phrase) of a sentence (clause or phrase) is repeated one or more times in the next several sentences (clauses or phrases)

 

Example: I refuse to make it work. It can never work. How dare you ask me to make it work.

Term
Diacope
Definition

repetition that occurs on either side of a word (or phrase) 

 

Example: I want pizza! Not vegetables, pizza!

Term
Antimetabole
Definition

figure of repetition where a phrase or set of words are repeated exactly, except in a different order

 

Example: We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.

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