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Anaphora |
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence or clause. "Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better” |
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Antithesis |
Presentation of two contrasting images "Speech is silver, but silence is gold." |
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Apostrophe |
An address to an imaginary or absent character when detached from reality “Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand?Come, let me clutch thee!I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.” |
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Assonance |
Repetition of the same sound in words close together. “Men sell the wedding bells.” |
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Asyndeton |
The lack of conjunctions between words, phrases, or sentences. “Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?” |
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Conceit |
Two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors.
“Oh stay! three lives in one flea spareWhere we almost, yea more than married are.This flea is you and I, and thisOur marriage-bed and marriage-temple is” |
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Diction |
Choice of words when used in speaking or writing. Formal Diction: “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheardAre sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on” Informal Diction: “Busy old fool, unruly Sun,Why dost thou thus,Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?Saucy pedantic wretch,” |
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Epanalepsis |
Repetition of the beginning word at the end of the clause. “A horse is a horse, of course, of course,And no one can talk to a horse of courseThat is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mister Ed.” |
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Epithet |
An adjective that makes a person or thing seem more prominent than they truly are. “The earth is crying-sweet,And scattering-bright the air,Eddying, dizzying, closing round,With soft and drunken laughter…” |
