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Figure of Speech
Figure of Speech for Actors
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English
11th Grade
02/15/2012

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Anaphora
Definition

Repitition of beginnings

 

Example:

 

"I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens."

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Anastrophe
Definition

Arrangement by reversal of order

 

Example:

 

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."

Term
Antanaclasis
Definition

Repetition in different senses

 

Example:

 

"People on the go...go for Coke."

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Antimetabole
Definition

Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

 

Example:

 

"Stops static before static stops you."

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Antithesis
Definition

Repitition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

 

Example:

 

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

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Asyndeton
Definition

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

 

Example:

 

"Speed up the film, montag, quick."

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Auxesis
Definition

Arrangement by ascending importance

 

Example:

 

"Jeans that can lenthen legs hug hips and turn heads."

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Ellipsis
Definition

Omission

 

Example:

 

"The streets were deserted, the doors were bolted."

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Chiasmus
Definition

Repitition of ideas in inverted order

 

Example:

 

"Nice to see you, to see you, nice."

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Epanorthosis
Definition

Addition by correction

 

Example:

 

"Maybe there is a beast...what i mean is...maybe its only us."

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Epizeuxis
Definition

Repitition immediately

 

Example:

 

"I undid the lantern cautiously-oh so cautiously-cautiously."

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Erothema
Definition

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

 

Example:

 

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

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Isolcolon
Definition

Repitition of grammatical forms

 

Example:

 

"It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking."

Term
Parenthesis
Definition

Addition of "pop-up" idea

 

Example:

 

"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident when I was three."

Term
Polysyndeton
Definition

Addition of conjunctions

 

Example:

 

"It is respectable to have no illusions-and safe-and profitable-and dull."

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Zeugma
Definition

Omission of a veb from parallel clauses

 

Example:

 

"She arrived in a taxi and a flaming rage."

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