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21 Cards in this Set
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ANTANACLASIS
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Repeating a word while shifting from one meaning to another.
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"Until I labour, I in labour lie"
(Donne) |
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HYPERBATON
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The use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the one expected as usual one.
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"Him the Almighty Power hurled headlong"
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POLYPTOTON
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Taking a word and echoing it with another word derived from the same root.
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"I prove a horseman to my horse"
(Sidney) "Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood" (Shakespeare) |
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SYLLEPSIS
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Using a word having two different meanings without repeating the word, suggesting ambiguity.
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"Of man's first disobedience and the fruit" [fruit: apple/result]
(Milton) "Happy, ye leaves, when as those lilly hands" [leaves: pages, leaves] (Spenser) |
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ZEUGMA
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Using a verb for two different objects, implying two different meanings.
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"Stain her honour or her new brocade
Lose her heart or her necklace" (Pope) |
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PERIPHRASIS
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A roundabout way of speaking or writing to use long clauses or sophisticated words, to refer to something or someone.
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"Nine times the space that measure day and night to mortal men"
(Milton) "That shepherd that first taught the chosen seed how in the beginning the heavens and earth were created." (Milton) |
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EPIZEUXIS
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Repetition of a word without any other word intervening.
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"Words, words, words"
(Shakespeare) |
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ELLIPSIS
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A word or several words are left out in order to achieve a compact expression.
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"Lust is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame, savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust"
(Shakespeare) "From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, much pleasure, Then from thee, much more must flow" (Donne) |
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ALLITERATION
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Repetition of the same consonant at the beginning of two or more words or in a stressed syllable.
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"From a great furnaced flamed, yet from those flames no light".
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ANAPHORA
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Repeating a word at the beginning of two or more lines or clauses.
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"So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives thee and this gives life to thee" (Shakespeare) "What in me is dark illumine, what is low, raise and support" (Milton) |
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ANADIPLOSIS
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Giving the same word the last position in a clause or line, and the first or near the first in the following one.
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"I saw, and liked; I liked, but lovèd not; I loved, but straight did not what Love decreed"
(Sidney) |
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PARISON
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Repetition of two or more words in a symmetrical structure.
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"It made his own lieutenant Nature shrink,
It made his footstool crack and the sun wink" (Donne) "Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? Was ever woman in this humour won?" |
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EPANADIPLOSIS
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Repeating the same word at the beginning and at the end of a line or clause.
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"Kings it made gods,
and meaner creatures kings" (Shakespeare) |
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ANADIPLOSIS
(Climax or Gradatio) |
Using anadiplosis in three or more sentences.
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"That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, knowledge may pity win, and pity grace obtain"
(Sidney) |
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PARONOMASIA
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Repeating a word similar in sound to one already used.
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"Cousins, indeed, and by their uncle cozen'd"
"Not my deserts, but what I will deserve" (Shakespeare) |
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ISOCOLON
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Repetition of complete symmetrical structures, not necessarily the same words.
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"When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death
And Innocence is closing up his eyes" (Drayton) |
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PLOCE
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Repetition of a word in a clause or line.
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"When thou hast done, thou hast not done"
"Mark but this flea, and mark in this" (Donne) |
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APOSTROPHE
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To address a person, animal or object, whether absent or present, to express anger, a demand, etc.
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"Hence, loathèd Melancholy, of Cerberus and blackest midnight born"
(Milton) "Ye tradefull Merchants, that with weary toylle" (Spenser) |
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EPISTROPHE
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Repetition of a word at the end of two or more lines or clauses.
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"These lines that now thou scorn'st that should delight thee,
Then would I make thee read, but to despite thee" (Drayton) |
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ANTIMETABOLE
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Repetition of the words in a different order.
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"Since ever Jack became a gentleman,
There's many a gentle person, made a Jack" (Shakespeare) |
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ASTEISMUS
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n a dialogue, a word returned by the answerer with an unlooked-for second meaning.
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"Feste: No sir, I live by the Church Viola: Art thou a churchman? F: No such thing sir, I do live by the Church for I live at my house and my house doth stand by the Church." (Shakespeare, Twelfth Night) "Gertrude: 'Tis common; all that lives must die. [common: universal] Hamlet: Ay madam, it is common. [common: vulgar] G: If it be, why seems it so particular with thee? [seems: appears] H: I know not seems (...) for those are actions that a man might play. [seems: pretends] (Shakespeare, Hamlet) |
