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English
11th Grade
02/15/2012

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ANAPHORA
Definition

REPITITION OF BEGINNINGS

ex: we shall not fail. we shall fight. we shall go to the end.

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ANASTROPHE
Definition

ARRANGMENT BY REVERSAL OF ORDER

ex: the leaves are rust and gold-> rust and gold are the leaves

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ANTANACLASIS
Definition

REPITITION IN DIFFERENT SENSES

ex: people on the go... go fo coke

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ANTIMETABOLE
Definition

REPITITION OF SUCCESSIVE CLAUSES IN REVERSE GRAMMATICAL ORDER

ex: stop static before static stops you 

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ANTITHESIS
Definition

REPITITION OF WORDS OR IDEAS IN CONTRASTING JUXTAPOSITION

ex: love is the ideal thing, marriage a real thing

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ASYNDETON
Definition

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

ARRANGMENT BY ASCENDING IMPORTANCE

ex: jeans that can lengthen legs, hug hips, and turn heads

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CHIASMUS
Definition

REPITITION OF IDEAS IN INVERTED ORDER

ex: i flee who chases me, and chase who flees me

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ELLIPSIS
Definition

OMISSION

ex: wise men talk because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.

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EPANORTHOSIS
Definition

ADDITION BY CORRECTION

(IN FORM OF PARENTHESIS, SOMETIMES)

ex: i dont like the majority of what i do, i shouldnt say i dont like it, but im not satisfies with almost everything i do

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EPIZEUXIS
Definition

REPITITION IMMEDIATLY

ex: i love scotch, scotchy, scotch, scotch

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EROTEMA
Definition

ASKING A QUESTION TO AFFIRM OR DENY A POINT

ex: it seems that way because you cant think of an answer

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ISOCOLON
Definition

REPITITION OF GRAMMATICAL FORMS

ex: it takes a licking, but it keeps on tickling

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PARENTHESIS
Definition

ADDITION OF POP UP IDEA

ex: my mother died in a freak accident(picnic, lighting) when i was there

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POLYSYNDETON
Definition

ADDITION OF CONJUNCTIONS

ex: it is responsible to have no illusions and safe--and profitable--and dull.

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ZEUGMA
Definition

OMISSION OF A VERB FROM PARALLEL CLAUSES

ex:he carried a strobe light and the responsiblity for the lives of his men

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