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Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech
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English
11th Grade
02/15/2012

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Term
Anaphora
Definition

Repitition of beginnings

 

Example:

"I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off."

Term
Anastrophe
Definition

Arrangement by reversal of order

 

Example:

"Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. . . . This one a long time have I watched. . . . Never his mind on where he was."

Term
Antanaclasis
Definition

Repitition in different senses

 

Example:

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

Term
Antimetabole
Definition

Repitition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

 

Example:

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

Term
Antithesis
Definition

Repitition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

 

Example:

"Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee."

Term
Asyndeton
Definition

Omission by breaking off suddenly in the middle of speaking

 

Example:

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

Term
Auxesis
Definition

Arrangement by ascending importance

 

Example:

"Jeans That Can
Lengthen Legs
Hug Hips
& Turn Heads"

Term
Chiasmus
Definition

Repitition of ideas in inverted order

 

Example:

"Nice to see you, to see you, nice!"

Term
Ellipsis
Definition

Omission

 

Example:

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

Term
Epanorthosis
Definition

Addition by correction (sometimes form of parenthesis)

 

Example:

"I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

Term
Epizeuxis
Definition

Repitition immediately

 

Example:

"I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly."

Term
Erotema
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?"

Term
Isocolon
Definition

Repitition of grammatical forms

 

Example:

"I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, we're a Pepper--
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper!"

Term
Parenthesis
Definition

Addition of "pop-up" idea

 

Example:

"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three."

Term
Polysyndeton
Definition

Addition of conjunctions

 

Example:

"Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness."

Term
Zeugma
Definition

Omission of a verb from parallel clauses

 

Example:

"Kill the boys and the luggage!"

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