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8 Cards in this Set
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Ellipsis |
omission of a word or group of words example: "the streets were deserted, the doors bolted." |
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Epistrophe |
repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses example: "where now? who now? when now? |
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Anaphora |
repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. example: "my life in my purpose. my life is my goal. my life in my inspiration." |
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Anadiplosis |
repetition of the last word of one clause and the beginning of the following clause. example: "for lycidas dead, dead ere his prime..." |
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Epanalepsis |
repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause. example: "next time there wont be a next time." |
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antimetabole |
arrangement of ideas in the second clause, reversal to the first. example: "eat to live, not live to eat." |
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Polysydeton |
use of many conjunctions, slows pace of a sentence. example: "let the white folks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly- mostly- let them have their whiteness." |
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Asyndeton |
omission of conjunctions, speeds pace of sentence. example: "this is the villan among you who deceived you. who cheated you, who meant to betray you completely." |
