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Figures of Speech
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English
11th Grade
02/15/2012

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Anaphora
Definition

Repition of Beginnings

 

Example

I need money, I need a job, I need a car.

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Anastrophe
Definition

Arrangement by reversal of order

 

Example

Gracious she was, by gracious i mean full of graces

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Antanaclasis
Definition

Repitition in different senses

 

Example

People on the go... go for Coke

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Antimetabole
Definition

Repitition of successive clauses in reverse gramatical order

 

Example

I can write better tan anybody who can write faster, i can write faster than aybod who can write Better

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Antithesis
Definition

Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

 

Example

Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing

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Asyndeton
Definition

Omission of conjuctions from clauses

 

Example

He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac

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Auxesis
Definition

Arrangement by ascending importances

 

Examples

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

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Chiasmus
Definition

Repitition of ideas in inverted order

 

Emaple

Nice to see you, to see you Nice!

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Ellipses
Definition

Omission

 

 Example

Prosperity a great teacher, adversity a greater

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Epanorthosis
Definition

Addition by correction

 

 Example

Maybe its only a beast, i mean, maybe its only us

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Epizeuxis
Definition

Repitition immediately

 

 Example

 DAMN DAMN DAMN DAMN!

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Erotema
Definition

Asking a question to comfirm or deny a point

 

 Example

 Marriage is an institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

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Isolcolon
Definition

Repitition of gramatical forms

 

 Example

 It takes a licking but it keeps on ticking

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Parenthesis
Definition

Addition of "pop-up" ideas

 

Examples

Term
Polysyndeton
Definition

Addition of conjuctions

 

 Example

 She was nice and beutiful and sweet

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Zeugma
Definition

Omission of a verb from parrellel clauses

 

 Example

He carried a strobe light and resposibilty of his men

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