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English
11th Grade
02/15/2012

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Anaphora

Definition

Repitition of beginnings

 

Examples:

"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."
(Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, 1940)



 

Term
Anastrophe
Definition

Arrangement be reversal of order

Examples:

"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."
(Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V--The Empire Strikes Back, 1980)

Term
Antanaclasis
Definition

Repitition in different senses

Examples:

"And there's bars on the corners and bars on the heart."
(Tim McGraw, "Where The Green Grass Grows")



 

Term
Antimetabole
Definition

Repitition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

Examples:

  • "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us."
    (Malcolm X)
Term

Antithesis

 

Definition

Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

Example:

 

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."
(Goethe)

Term
Asyndenton
Definition

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

Exapmle:

"He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."
(Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957)

Term
Auxesis
Definition

Arrangement by ascending importance

Exapmle:

"It's a well hit ball, it's a long drive, it might be, it could be, it IS . . . a home run."
(American baseball broadcaster Harry Carey)

Term
Chiasmus
Definition

Repetition of ideas in inverted order

Exapmle:

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
(Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006)

Term
Ellipsis
Definition

Omission

Example:

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

Term
Epanorthosis
Definition

Addition by conrrection

Exapmle:

"Maybe there is a beast. . . . What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us."
(Simon in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954)

Term
Epizeuxis
Definition

Repetition immmediatly

Exapmle:

"I love scotch, scotchy, scotch, scotch, here it goes down into my belly"

 

Term
Erotema
Definition

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

Exapmle:

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?"
(H. L. Mencken)

Term
Isocolon
Definition

Repetition 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!"
    (advertising jingle for Dr. Pepper soft drink)
Term
Parenthesis
Definition

Addition of "pop up " idea

Exapmle:

"My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three."
(Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1955)

Term
Polysyndeton
Definition

Addition of conjunctions

Exapmle:

"Most motor-cars are conglomerations (this is a long word for bundles) of steel and wire and rubber and plastic, and electricity and oil and petrol and water, and the toffee papers you pushed down the crack in the back seat last Sunday."
(Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, 1964)

Term
Zeugma
Definition

Omission of a verb from parallel clauses

Example:

"You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
(Star Trek: The Next Generation)

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