English Literary Studies (Subject) / Rhetorical figures definitions (syntactical) (Lesson)
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Rhetorical figures definitions (syntactical)
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- Parallelism Repetition of in the structure of clauses, phrases etc " Easy come, easy go."
- Ellipsis Omission of a word or phase "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
- Aposiopesis abrupt cessation before the end of an utterance
- Anaphora Repetition of a word or clause at the beginning of successive lines "Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,/Some in their wealth..."
- Asyndeton Unusual omission of conjunctions "All whom war, death, age agues, tyannies,despair..."
- Polysendeton Use of many conjunctions "When you are old and grey and full of sleep"
- Inversion Reversal of normal word order "Strange fits of passion have I known"
- Chiasmus Cross-wise arrangement of elements "Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
- Epiphora Repetition of a word or clause at the end of successive lines "Daring as never befor, wastage as nerver befor"
- Zeugma application of one verb to more than one object in dfferent senses "You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
- hysteron proteron reversal of the logical succession of events