Ap English

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asyndeton

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deliberate conjunctions between a series of words, phrases, or clauses.

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

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Juxtaposition

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2 or more ideas, places, characters-their actions are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons.

Light and dark, hot and cold,

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Polysyndeton

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deliberate use of many conjunctions like and and but

My brother likes trains and cars and boats and planes

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Anaphora

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repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive phrases

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall be brave.

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Alliteration

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repetition of an initial or middle consonant in 2 or more adjacent words.

From forth the fatal woes of those two foes.

THe F's

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Parallelism

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

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

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Epistrophe

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repetition of the same word or groups of words at the ends of successive phrases

Where now? Who now? When now?

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Antithesis

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the juxtaposition of 2 contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure.

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

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Anastrophe

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the inversion of natural word order

"one ad a survey does not make."

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Anadiplosis

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

The mountains look on Marathon-And Marathon looks on the sea.

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Antanaclasis

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repetition of a word or phrase whose meaning changes in the 2nd instance often puns.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

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Polyptoton

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repetition of words derived from the same root

The Greeks are strong, and skillful, to their strength, and fierce to their skill, and their fierceness valiant.

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Synedoche

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figure of speech in which a part represents a whole

His eye hers as she sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her. (faces represents the crowd)

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Hyperbole

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the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect

we walked along a road in Cumberland and stooped because the sky hung so low

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Metonomy

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substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant-the word used is linked but not a part of it.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

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Rhetorical Question

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asking a question not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but to assert or deny an answer implicitly.

Can anyone look at our reduced standing in the world today and say "Let's have 4 more years of this?"

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Chiasmus

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reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget

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Antimetabole

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

one should eat to live, not live to eat