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Syntactical Devices - Grace Chang - Coggle Diagram
Syntactical Devices - Grace Chang
Anadiplosis
Example: "I might," he answered. "And then again, we may never know exactly." "Exactly what" (Lisle 33).
Definition: Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next.
Asyndeton
Example: "She changed the beds, swept the floors, hauled in coal for the stove" (Lisle 15).
Definition: Omission of conjunctions that ordinarily join words or clauses.
Anaphora
"Her coat and hat hung on a hook in the hall, as if she'd only stepped out for a moment. Her wedding china was on display in the parlor cabinet. Her sheet music sat on the piano. Her bold handwriting filled the book of recipes that lay open, more often than not, on the counter in the kitchen where Marina, Jeddy's older sister, was now in charge" (Lisle 14).
Definition: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning or successive clauses.
Antithesis
Example: "They were local men from local families with a need to make ends meet during hard times, different altogether from the big-city syndicates that were beginning to bully their way into the business at that time" (Lisle 53 + 54).
Definition: A contrast or opposition between two things
Epanalepsis
Definition: Repetition after intervening words.
Example: "He dealt fair and square no matter who you were, and often he was more than fair" (Lisle 12).
Epistrophe
Example: "What does that mean?" "It just means what it means" (Lisle 33).
Definition: The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Polysyndeton
Example: "For a time we stood rooted in place, staring at the dead man, and at the pool of gray water he lay in, and at the gulls who floated on the incoming swells just offshore, watching our movements with cold yellow eyes" (Lisle 19).
Definition: Using conjunctions in close succession, especially where some would be omitted.