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English
11th Grade
02/15/2012

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Anaphora

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Repetition of thr same word or group of words.

 

Example: We shall not flag or fail. we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans.

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Antithesis

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Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting.
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Anastrophe

Definition
Arrangement by reversal of order
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Antanaclasis

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Repetition in different sense
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Antimetabole

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Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
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Asyndeton

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omission of conjuctions from clauses
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Chiasmus

Definition
Repetition of ideas in inverted order
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