English Final
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mandapanda95 on December 2, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Parallelism | "It is by logic we prove, but by intuition we discover." Leonardo da Vinci |
| Asyndeton | "...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Abraham Lincoln |
| Anaphora | "Person attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." Mark Twain |
| Anadiplosis | "Labor and care are rewarded with success, success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which diligence had raised." Samuel Johnson |
| Antimetabole | "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." John F. Kennedy |
| Chiasmus | "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." William Shakespeare |
| Isocolon | "He is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie." Winston Churchill |
| Antithesis | "Essex thought him in wanting zeal as a friend; Elizabeth thought him in wanting duty as a subject." Thomas Babington Macaulay |
| Zuegma | Exercise physiologists argue that body- pump aerobics sessions help a person breathe more efficiently, move with more comfort, |
| Antimetabole | "You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance." Ray Bradbury |
| Anastrophe | "The emotional isolation, the preoccupation with God and themselves, the struggles for freedom, which seem to have possessed many of my friends at the same age, I know almost nothing of." C.P. |
| Parenthesis | The bunny- white and fluffy- continued to hop into the woods. |
| Ellipsis | "Kant, we may suppose, was more startled, by Hume's apparent destruction of all basis for philosophical certainty; Reid, by the remoter consequences to morality and theology." |
| Brachylogia | "The affair is over. Clarissa lives." Samuel Richardson |
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