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Breanna Kennedy, Megan Hopper, Megan Allen, Libby Stover
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English
11th Grade
04/23/2012

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Inversion

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inverted order of words in a sentence

 

Example:

"Here by the rose tree

They planted once

Of Love in Jeopardy

An Italian Bronze."

-Humber Wolfe, "Love in Jeopardy

 

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Anaphora

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Definition:

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

 

Example:

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

-Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, June 4, 1940

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Rhetorical Question

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A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. The answer may be obvious or immediately provided by the questioner.

 

Example:

"The means are at hand to fulfill the age-old dream: poverty can be abolished. How long shall we ignore this under-developed nation in our midst? How long shall we look the other way while our fellow human beings suffer? How long"
(Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States, 1962)

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Imperative Sentence

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Cumulative Sentence

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sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on.

Example: We need the tonic of wildness,—to wade sometimes

in marshes where the bittern and meadowhen lurk,

and hear the booming of the snipe;

to smell the whispering sedge where only some

wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the

mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. (Henry David Thoreau, Walden)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oxymoron

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Definition:

paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict each other

 

Example:

"O brawling love! O brawling hate!

O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!

Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!

This love I feel, that feel no love in this."

-William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"

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Juxtaposition

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