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Isocolon

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Cards (19)

Section 1

(19 cards)

Isocolon

Front

His purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous. an envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

Back

Ellipsis

Front

And he to England shall along with you

Back

Chiasmus

Front

His time a moment, and a point his space.

Back

polysyndeton

Front

I said, "who killed him?" and he said, "I don´t know who killed him but he's dead all right," and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my bot where I had her inside Mango Key and she was all right only she was full of water.

Back

Antithesis

Front

What if I am rich, and another is poor; strong, and he is weak; intelligent, and he is benighted; elevated, and he is depraved? Have we not one Father? Hath not one God created us?

Back

Apposition

Front

The mountain was the earth, her home.

Back

Asyndeton

Front

I came, I saw, I conquered

Back

Polyptoton

Front

We would like to contain the uncontainable future in a glass.

Back

Anaphora

Front

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills.

Back

Parenthesis

Front

Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization-pardon me, our whole culture (an important distinction, I've heard) which might sound like a hoax, or a contradiction, but that (by contradiction, I mean) is how the world moves: not like an arrow, but a boomerang.

Back

parallelism

Front

The love of liberty, jury trial, the writ of habeas corpus, and all the blessing of free government.

Back

Climax

Front

Let a man acknowledge obligations to his family, his country, and his God.

Back

Epanalepsis

Front

Blood hath brought blood, and blows have answere'd blows: /Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted power.

Back

Antimetabole

Front

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Back

Epistrophe

Front

When you first came we were very many and you were very few. Now you are many and we are getting few.

Back

Anadiplosis

Front

The crime was common, common be the pain.

Back

Alliteration

Front

It was meanest moment of eternity.

Back

Anastrophe

Front

Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.

Back

Assonance

Front

Whales in the wake like capes Alps/Quaked the sick sea and snouted deep.

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