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12th Grade
05/27/2010

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Parallelism
Definition

relating a series of words, phrases or clauses by similar structure

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Isocolon
Definition

parallelism not only with structure, but in length.

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Antithesis
Definition

Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure.

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

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Climax
Definition

arrangement of words, phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance.

He rejected his wife, family, and life itself.

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Anastrophe
Definition

inversion of the usual word order.

"One ad does not a survey make."

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Apposition
Definition

renaming or redefining a subject using commas.

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Parenthesis
Definition

insertion of word(s) that interrupt the normal syntax.

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Ellipsis
Definition

omission of word(s) implied in the context.

A's were earned by fifteen students, and B's by twelve.

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Asyndeton
Definition

omission of conjunctions between a series.

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

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Polysyndeton
Definition

addition of conjunctions between a series.

I came and I saw and I conquered.

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Alliteration
Definition

repetition of consonant sounds.

Shakespeare shatters complacent minds.

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Assonance
Definition

repetition of vowel sounds.

Shakespeare shatters complacent brains.

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Polyptoton
Definition

repetition of words derived from the same root.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

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Anaphora
Definition

repetition of word(s) at the beginning of successive clauses.

It is possessing, it is being unpossessed, it is within us all.

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Epistrophe
Definition

repetition of word(s) at the ends of successive clauses.

Her style is possessing, my mind she is possessing.

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Epanalepsis
Definition

repetition of word(s) at the beginning and end of a clause.

Possessing life without possessing---the ultimate free spirit she is.

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Anadiplosis
Definition

repetition of a word at the end of one clause with the beginning of the next clause.


Grabbing and possessing, possessing until possessed, possessed until we lose it all.

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Antimetabole
Definition

repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.

I like it, it likes me.

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