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16 figures of speech words
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English
11th Grade
02/15/2012

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Anaphora
Definition

Definition:Repetition of beginnings

 

Example: John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home.

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Anastrophe
Definition

Defintion: Arrangement by reversal of order

 

Example: A turning back, a turning upside down

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Antanaclasis
Definition

Definition: Repetition in different senses

 

Example: The craft of a politician is o appear before the public without craft.

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Antimetabole
Definition

Definition: Repetition of a successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

 

Example: Stop static beofre static stops you.

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Antithesis
Definition

Definition: Repetition of words in contrasting juxtaposition

 

Example: Give me liberty or give me death.

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Asyndeton
Definition

Definition: Omission of conjunctions from clauses

 

Example: He has provided the poor with jobs, with opportunity, with self respect.

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Auxesis
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Definition: Arrangement by ascending importance

 

Example: It's a well hit ball, it might be, could be, it is a home run.

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Chiasmus
Definition

Definition: Repetition of ideas in inverted order

 

Example: He went to the country to the town went she.

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Ellipsis
Definition

Definition: Omission

 

Example: Who are, while I am, or while we are.

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Epanorthosis
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Definition: Addition by correction (sometimes from parenthesis)

 

Example: Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not 'seems.'

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Epizeuxis
Definition

Definition: Repetition immediately

 

Example: Shots, shots, shots, shots

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Erotema
Definition

Definition: Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

 

Example: If practice makes perfect and no one's perfect, then why practice?

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Isocolon
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Definition: Repetition of grammatical forms

 

Example: It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking.

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Parenthesis
Definition

Definition: Addition of "pop-up" idea

 

Example: Mom dies in an accident (picnic, lightining) when I was three.

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Polysyndeton
Definition

Definition: Addition of conjunctions

 

Example: It is respectable to have no illusions- and safe and dull.

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Zeugma
Definition

Definition: Omission of a verb from parallel clauses

 

Example: Kill the boys, and the luggage.

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