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English
12th Grade
02/14/2012

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Term
Anaphora
Definition

 

Repetition of beginnings

 

Example

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

 

 

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

 

Term
Anastrophe
Definition

 

Arrangement by reversal of order

 

Example

 

"The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew."

 

 

 

 

 

Term
Antanaclasis
Definition

Repititon in different senses

 

Example

"And there's bars on the corners and bars on the heart."

Term
Antimetabole
Definition

repitition of successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

 

Example

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

Term
Antithesis
Definition

repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

 

example

Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee."

Term
Asyndeton
Definition

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

 

Examples:

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

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