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Figure of speech- Cristan Ramirez
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English
11th Grade
02/15/2012

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ANAPHORA
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Repitition of beginings

 

ex: I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation

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ANASTROPHE
Definition

Arrangement by reversal of order

 

ex: Sure i am of this, that you have only to endore to conquer

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ANTANACLASIS
Definition

Repitition in diff. senses

 

ex: "People on the go.....go for coke."

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ANTIMETABOLE
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Repitition of 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: " everbody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't lie Sara Lee"

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ASYNDETON
Definition

Omission of conjuctions from clauses

 

ex: "I have found the warm cause in the wood, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, innumerable goods."

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AUXESIS
Definition

Arrangement by ascending importance

 

ex: " Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, but sad mortality o'er-sways their power

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CHIASMUS
Definition

Repetition of ideas in inverted order

 

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

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ELLIPSIS
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Omission

 

ex: " Wise men talk because they have something to say i fools, because they have to say something. " ( plato)

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EPANORTHOSIS
Definition

Addition by correction (sometimes for of paranthesis)

 

ex:" Maybe there is a beast...
what i mean is.... maybe it's only us."

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EPIZEUXIS
Definition

Reitition immediatley

 

ex:" It's a twister! It's a twister!"( Wizards of oz)

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EROTEMA
Definition

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

 

ex: " If practicing makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?"

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ISOLCOLON
Definition

Repetition of grammatical forms

 

 

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

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PARENTHESIS
Definition

Addition of "pop-up" idea

 

ex: " Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you want. ( Facts are stubborn but statistics are more pliable.) "

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POLYSYNDETON
Definition

Addition of conuctions

 

ex: " We lived and laughed and loved and left."

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ZEUGMA
Definition

Omission of a verb from parallel clauses

 

ex: " He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men."

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