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what is an alliteration?
The repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
Peter Piper picked and pack of pickeled peppers
What is an allusion ?
A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional
"I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."
What is an anaphora ?
A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at the start of successive clauses
"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."
What is an antimetabole ?
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C, C-B-A).
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
What is an antithesis ?
Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
We shall support any friend , oppose any foe
Arachaic Diction
old fashioned or outdated choice of words
Belifes for which our forebears fought
What is an Asyndeton ?
A writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses
"They dove, splashed, floated, splashed, swam, snorted."
What is a Cummlative sentence ?
A sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on
I write this at a wide desk in a pine shed as I always do these recent years, in this life I pray will last, while the summer sun closes the sky to Orion and to all the other winter stars over my roof."
What is a hortative sentence ?
sentence that exhorts advises or calls to action
let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us
Imperative sentence
A sentence that gives advice or instructions or that expresses a request or command. (Compare with sentences that make a statement, ask a question, or express an exclamation.)
Seek simplicity, and distrust it."
what is an inversion ?
Inverted order of words in a sentence.
United there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperatice ventuers. Divided ther is little we can do
Juxtapostition
placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisions or contrast
"What a Wonder full World" while playing scenes of war and violence.
metaphor
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
"The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner."
metonymy
using a single feature to represent the whole
in your hands my fellow citizens more than mine will rest the final success or faliure of our course
oxymoron
Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another
bittersweet
parralelism
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
The more we do, the more we can do."/ The loss we felt was not the loss of ham but the loss of pig."
Periodic sentence
long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word
"And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."
personification
describing inanimate objects with the quality of life
the sun glowed with pride
rhetorical question
Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather for the purpose of getting an answer
Aren't you glad you use Dial?
Don't you wish everybody did?"
zeugma
Use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.
You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."