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English
12th Grade
02/15/2012

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Anastrophe

Definition

arrangement by reversal of order

 

 

Ready are you? what you know of ready?

yoda

Term
anaphora
Definition

repetition of beginnings

 

i dont like your jerk off name, i dont like your jerk off face, and i dont like you, jerkoff

Term
antanaclasis
Definition

repitition in different senses

 

and theres bars on the corners and bars on the heart

Term
antimetabole
Definition

repetition f succesive clauses in reverse gramatical order

 

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better

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antithesis
Definition

repitition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

 

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

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asyndeton
Definition

omission of conjunction from clauses

 

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

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auxesis
Definition

arrangement from ascending importance

 

It's a well hit ball, it's a long drive, it might be, it could be, it IS . . . a home run

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chiamsus
Definition

repitition of ideas in inverted order

 

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget

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ellipsis
Definition

omission

 

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater

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epanorthosis
Definition

addition by correction

 

Maybe there is a beast. . . . What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us

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epizeuxis
Definition

repitition immediately

 

go go go go og

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erotema
Definition

asking a queston to affirm or deny a point

 

Can I ask a rhetorical question? Well, can I

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isocolon
Definition

repitition of gramatical forms

 

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

 

fire the "lazer beam"

dr evil

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polysindenton
Definition

addition of conjunctions

 

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

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zeugma
Definition

omission of verb from parallel clauses

 

He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men

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