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11th Grade
02/15/2012

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Term

Anaphora

Definition

Repetition of beginnings

 

"I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize."

Term
Anastrophe
Definition

Arrangement by reversal of order

 

 

"Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear"

Term
Antanaclasis
Definition

Repetition in different senses

 

"I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!"

Term
Antimetabole
Definition

Repetition of successive clauses in reverse grammaical order

 

"Eat to live, not live to eat."

Term
Antithesis
Definition

Repetition of words or ideas in contrasting juxaposition

 

 

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

Term
Asyndeton
Definition

Omission of conjunctions from clauses

 

"Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That--that's about it."

Term
Auxesis
Definition

Arrangementby ascending importance

"Its a bird.... Its a plane.... Its Superman!"

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Chiasmus
Definition

Repetition of ideas in inverted order

 

"I mean what i say and i say what i mean"

Term
Ellipsis
Definition

Omission

 

"I never drink.... Wine"

Term
Epanorthosis
Definition

Addition by Correction

 

"Thousands! No Millions"

Term
Epizeuxis
Definition

Repetition immeadiatley

 

"O, horror, horror, horror"

Term
Erotema
Definition

Asking a question to affirm or deny a point

 

"Can I ask a rhetorical question? Well, can I?"

Term
Isocolon
Definition

Repetition of grammatical forms

 

"I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, we're a Pepper--
Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper!"

Term
Parenthesis
Definition

Addition of a "pop up" idea

 

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation."

Term
Polsyndeton
Definition

Addition of conjunctions

 

"Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war--not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government--not any other thing. We are the killers."

Term
Zeugma
Definition

Omission of a verb from parrallel clauses

 

"You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."

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