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Syntactical Devices / Derek Chuang / ELA Period 3/8 - Coggle Diagram
Syntactical Devices / Derek Chuang / ELA Period 3/8
Epistrophe
Definition: The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Example: Page 39 - "It's about time you started supporting your own lifestyle." "What lifestyle?"
Anadiplosis
Definition: Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next
Example: Page 39 - "All that stuff you buy at the mall. Books.
Books! You mean, for high school next fall?"
Example: Page 33 - "And then again, we may never know exactly." "Exactly what?""
Anaphora
Definition: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Example: Page 14 - "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."
Example: Page 31 - "The dead man could not have floated away. The tide was too low, still going out, in fact. "The flock of gulls was there," Jeddy said, pointing."
Polysyndeton
Definition: Using conjunctions is close succession, especially where some would usually be omitted
Example: Page 19 - "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."
Epanalepis
Definition: Repetition after intervening words
Example: Page 19 - "She held her head the same upright way her daughter did, and a wrinkle on her forehead was identical to one hat rose on Marina's forehead in thoughtful moments."
Asyndeton
Definition: Omissions of conjunctions that usually join words or clauses
Example: Page 39 - "His dad is a hands-on guy who measures industry by what he can see: gardens plowed, hedges pruned, laws seeded."
Antithesis
Definition: A contrast or opposition between two things
Example: Page 53-54 - "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 heir way into the business at that time."