rhetorical devices

asyendeton (quote)

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

asyendeton (def)

deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses.

anastrophe (def)

inversion of the natural or usual word order

apposition (def)

placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation of modification of the first. In grammar, this is the appositive or verbal cluster

antanaclasis (def)

repetition of a word in two different senses

anadiplosis (def)

repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

anaphora (def)

repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses

antimetabole (def)

repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

antithesis (effect)

the contrast may be in words or in ideas or both. When used well, __________ can be very effective, even witty.

asyendeton (effect)

the effects of this device are to emphasize each clause and to produce a punctuates rhythm in the sentence

antithesis (def)

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure

assonance (def)

the repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.

anthimeria (def)

the substitution of one part of speech for another

assonance (quote)

"Whales in the wake like capes and Alps/ Quaked the sick sea and snouted deep."

antithesis (quote)

"What if I am rich, and another is poor-strong, and he is weak-intelligent, and he is benighted-elevated, and he is depraved? Have we not one Father? Hath not one God created us?"

anastrophe (quote)

"as the saint of old sweetly sang, 'I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord;' so ought we to be glad when any opportunity of doing good is presented to us."

anadiplosis (quote)

"the crime was common, common be the pain."

anaphora (quote)

"we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the street, we shall fight in the hills."

anadiplosis (effect)

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antanaclasis (effect)

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anthimeria (effect)

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antimetabole (effect)

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apposition (effect)

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assonance (effect)

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antanaclasis (quote)

"If we don't hang together, we'll hang separately."

anthimeria (quote)

"Me, dictionarying heavily, ;Where was the one they were watching?'"

antimetabole (quote)

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."

apposition (quote)

"The mountain was the earth, her home."

anastrophe (effect)

this deviation can emphasize a point or it can just sound awkward. it is most effective if the author rarely writes awkwardly because when set among well-structured sentences, it emphasizes the inverted phrase

anaphora (effect)

this device produces a strong emotional effect, especially in speech. it also establishes a marked change in rhythm.