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Syntactical Devices - Sophia Duarte - Coggle Diagram
Syntactical Devices - Sophia Duarte
Asyndeton
Definition: Omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join words or clauses.
Example: "It was she who washed up after, darned her father's socks, hung the laundry and took it down. She changed the beds, swept the floors, hauled in coal for the stove" (15).
Anaphora
Definition: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Example: "He was a big man with a big personality, known for speaking his mind in a moment of heat, but there was nothing underhanded in him. He dealt fair and square no matter who you were, and often he was more than fair" (12).
Anadiplosis
Definition: Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next.
Example: "'And then again, we may never know exactly.' 'Exactly what?' 'What happened'" (33).
Epistrophe
Definition: The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Example: "'It's about time you started supporting your own lifestyle.' 'What lifestyle?'" (39)
Epanalepsis
Definition: Repetition after intervening words.
Example: "We're going to be reporting this supposed body to the proper authorities, and they're going to be reporting to those above them, and it won't do any good to have rumors flying about" (33).
Polysyndeton
Definition: Using conjunctions in close succession, especially where some would usually be omitted.
Example: "Only later in my room, thinking back to the men onshore, men I knew and respected and who knew and trusted me, I began to have second thoughts" (55).
Antithesis
Definition: A contrast or opposition between two things.
Example: "The stem had a fashionable dip with a nice lip. Riley's sold pipes, though none so fine as this one" (43).