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Section 1

(37 cards)

Anadiplosis

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repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

Back

Isocolon Example

Front

"It takes a licking" but "it keeps on ticking"

Back

Anaphora

Front

repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses

Back

Ellipsis

Front

deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context

Back

Antimetabole

Front

repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

Back

Anastrophe Example

Front

Excited the children were when Santa entered the room.

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Polysyndeton

Front

Deliberate use of many conjunctions

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Polypoton

Front

repetition of words derived from the same root

Back

Isocolon

Front

similarity not only of structure but of length

Back

Parenthesis Example

Front

This continued for many years - some would say far longer than it should have - before a new brand of politician put an end to it.

Back

Alliteration

Front

repetition of initial or medial consonants in two

Back

Ellipsis Example

Front

Some people prefer cats; others, dogs.

Back

Caesura

Front

A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.

Back

Antithesis Example

Front

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

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Polysyndeton Example

Front

We lived and laughed and loved and left.

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Asyndeton

Front

deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series

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Anadiplosis Example

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Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

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Parallelism Example

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What You See Is What You Get

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Antimetabole Example

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Fair is foul and foul is fair

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Apposition

Front

placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first

Back

Anaphora Example

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My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.

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Asyndeton Example

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Without looking, without making a sound, without talking

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Epistrophe

Front

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses

Back

Epanalepsis Example

Front

Common sense is not so common.

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Antithesis

Front

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure

Back

Epistrophe Example

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"I'll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond!" (The Merchant of Venice, III, iii, 3-4)

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Chiasmus Example

Front

"By day the frolic, and the dance by night."

Back

Climax

Front

arrangement of words, phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance

Back

Anastrophe

Front

Inversion of the natural or usual word order

Back

Assonance

Front

the repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words

Back

Assonance Example

Front

Men sell the wedding bells

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Chiasmus

Front

reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses (but not repetition of words )

Back

Epanalepsis

Front

repetition of the last word of one clause that occurred at the beginning of the clause

Back

Parallelism

Front

similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Back

Apposition Example

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John, my brother, is coming home.

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Parenthesis

Front

insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence

Back

Alliteration Example

Front

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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