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Syntactical Devices Lakshmi Kaimulayil - Coggle Diagram
Syntactical Devices Lakshmi Kaimulayil
Anaphora
Example: "He hitches home this time rather than wait for his mother. He touched on something, he knows it" (Lisle 6).
Definition: The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Epistrophe
Definition: The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.
Example: "We were close at one time. Had adventures. What adventures? David asks" (Lisle 7).
Epanalepsis
Definition: Repetition after intervening words.
Example: "People look back now and think those days were romantic, all high jinks and derring-do. They're mistaken. David had brought a notepad along, expecting to jot down interesting facts. Not romantic, he writes at the top of the page" (Lisle 8).
Asyndeton
Definition: Omission of conjuctions that ordinarily join words or clauses.
Example: "If you were lucky, and we were never that I can recall, they'd be bottles still wedged inside-whiskey, vodka, brandy, even chamapgne-smuggled liquor that could bring a good price if you knew what to do with it" (Lisle 10).
Polysyndeton
Definition: Using conjunctions in close succession, especially where some would usually be omitted.
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).
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.
Antithesis
Example: "Though he was short, far shorter than my father, his meaty chest gave him the hunched look of a bulldog" (Lisle 49).
Definition: A contrast or opposition between two things.