Monday, October 19, 2009

Literary Terms

• Alliteration- repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sentence
• Anacoluthon- lack of grammatical sequence; a change in the grammatical construction of the same sentence
• Anadiplosis- ("doubling back") the rhetorical repetition of one or several words
• Anastrophe- transposition of normal word order; most often found in Latin in the case of preposition and the words they control. Anastrophe is a form of hyperbaton
• Antistrophe- repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of a phrase
• Antithesis- opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
• Aporia- The expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think, say or do.

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