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English
12th Grade
02/15/2012

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Anaphora
Definition

Repetition of beginnings

 

Ex: We shall fight on the beaches, we shall on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets

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Anastrophe
Definition

Arrangement by reversal of order

 

Ex: Intelligent she was not. In fact, she veered in the opposite direction

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Antanaclasis
Definition

Repetition in different senses

 

Ex: we must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separetly

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Antimetabole
Definition

 Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

 

Ex: We didn't land on plymputh rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us

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Antithesis
Definition

Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

 

Ex: Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing

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Asyndeton
Definition

Omission of conjuctions from clauses

 

Ex: He was a bag of bones, a flopp doll, a broken stick, a maniac

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Auxesis
Definition

Arrangement by ascending importance

 

Ex: Jeans that can lengthen legs, hug hips and turn heads

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Chiasmus
Definition

Repetition of ideas in inverted order

 

Ex: I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me

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Elipsis
Definition

Omission

 

Ex: An evil witch, a tap-dancing scare crow, flying monkeys, an emotionally unstable lion, disturbing muchkins

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Epanorthosis
Definition

Addition by correction (sometimes form parenthesis)

 

Ex: Thence have I follwed it (or it hath drawn me, rather) but it's gone.

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Epizeuxis
Definition

Repetition immediately

 

EX: Strong men also cry, strong men also cry

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Erotema
Definition

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

 

Ex: Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

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Isocolon
Definition

Reetition of grammatical forms

 

Ex: Nothing that is beautiful hides its face, Nothing that's honest hides its name

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Parenthesis
Definition

Addition of "pop-up" idea

 

Ex: Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more plausible)

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Polysyndeton
Definition

Addition of conjuctions

 

Ex: It is respectab;e to have no illusions and safe - and profitable- and dull

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Zeugma
Definition

Omission of verb from parallel clauses

 

Ex: You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit

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