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

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ANAPHORA
Definition

Def. Repetition of beginnings

 

Ex. "I told Paul to close the door and he did so."

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ANTANACLASIS
Definition

Def. Repetition in diff senses.

 

Ex. If you don't look good, we don't look good.

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ANTIMETABOLE
Definition

Def. Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order.

 

Ex. Stop static before static stops you!!!

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ANTITHESIS
Definition

Def. Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

Def. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

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ASYNDETON
Definition

Def. omission of conjunctions from clauses

 

Ex. he was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac.

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AUXESIS
Definition

Def. arrangement by ascending importance

 

Ex. Jeans that can lengthen legs hug hips and turn heads

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CHIASMUS
Definition

Def. Substitution of ideas in inverted order

 

Ex. Nice to see you to see you nice.

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ELLIPSIS
Definition

Def. omission

 

Ex. the streets were deserted the door bolted

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EPIZEUXIS
Definition

Def rep. immediatly

 

Ex. I undid the lanturn cautiously-- oh so cautiously, cautiously.

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EPANORTHOSIS
Definition

Def. Addition by correction

 

Ex. maybe there is a beast what i mean is maybe its only us

Term
EROTEMA
Definition

Def. asking a question to affirm or deny a point

 

Ex. How much longer must our people endure this injustice.

Term
POLYSYNDETON
Definition

Def. Addition of conjunstions

 

Ex. it is respectable to have no illusions and safe a profitable and dull

Term
PARENTHESIS
Definition

Def. Addition of pop up idea

 

Ex. my very photogenic mom died in a freak accident (picnik lightning) when i was3

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ANASTROPHE
Definition

Def. Arrangement by reversal of order

 

Ex. our lives upon, to use our strongest hands

Term
ZEUGMA
Definition

Def. omission of a verbs from parallel clauses

 

Ex. he carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.

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ISOLOCOLON
Definition

Def. Rep of grammatical forms

 

Ex. many will enter few will win

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