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English
12th Grade
02/15/2012

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Anaphora
Definition

Repitition of beginings

 

Example: Good food . Good cheer. Good times

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Anastrophe
Definition

Arrangement by reversal of order

 

Example: Sure i am of thi, that you only have to endure to conqure.

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Antanaclasis
Definition

Repetition in different senses

 

Example: If you dont look good,we dont look good

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Antimetabole
Definition

repitition of successive clauses in reverse gramatical order

 

Example:Stop static before static stops you

 

 

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Antithesis
Definition

Repitition of words or ideas in contrasting juxtaposition

 

Example: Love is an ideal thing, marrige is a real thing

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Asyndeton
Definition

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

 

Example: He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a mainiac

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Auxesis
Definition

Arrangement by ascending order

 

Example: "Jeans that can leangthen legs, hug hips, and turn heads

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Chiasmus
Definition

repitition of ideas in inverted order

 

Example: you forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget

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Ellipsis
Definition

Omission

 

Example: Prosperity is a great teacher; adcersity is greater

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Epanorthosis
Definition

Addition by correction(Somtimes a form of parenthesis)

 

Example: "With a heave of his chest, Craker rose and came walking-orrather, limping towards him"

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Epizeuxis
Definition

Repitition immediatly

 

Example: I love scothch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. here it goes down into my belly

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Erotema
Definition

Asking a question to confirm or deny a point

 

Example: Marrige is a wonderful institution , but who would want to live in an institution?

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Isocolon
Definition

Repititionn of grammatical forms

 

Example: nothing thaths beautiful hides its face and nothing thats honest hides its name.

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Parenthesis
Definition

Addition of a "pop-up" idea

 

Example: My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident(picnic,lightning) when i was three

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Polysyndeton
Definition

Addition of conjunctions

 

Example: (I)t is respectable to have no illusions-and safe- and profitable-and dull.

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Zeugma
Definition

Omission of a verb from parellel clauses

 

Example: "Kill the boys, and the luggage!"

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