AP Language 6 Terms

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AP Language 6 Terms

• Anaphora Antimetabole
• Asyndeton Juxtaposition
• Polysyndeton Ellipsis

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Anaphora

• Repetition of the same word or group of words at
  the beginnings of successive clauses.
• i.e. The Lord sitteth above the water floods.
  The Lord remaineth a King forever. The Lord
  shall give strength unto his people. The Lord
  shall give his people of blessing of peace.
• Psalm 29

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Ellipsis

• A rhetorical figure in which one or more words
  are omitted.
• "The Master's degree is awarded by seventy-four
  departments, and the Ph.d. by sixty."

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Antimetabole

• Anti-muh-ta-boh-lee
• Words are repeated in different grammatical
  forms.
• When the going gets tough, the tough get going
• You can take the kid out of the country, but you
  cant take the country out of the kid.

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Antimetabole

• Ask not what your country can do for youask
  what you can do for your country.

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Examples Asyndeton in a series of clauses

• I have spoken, you have heard you know the
  facts now give your decision.
• Aristotle
• I do not understand I pause I examine.
• Montaigne

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Examples Asyndeton can occur within a sentence
anywhereat the beginning, at the end.

• A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancers leap,
  never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
• Proust
• A confidence always aims at glory, scandal,
  excuse, propaganda.
• Valery

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Too many conjunctions

• Choosing to have too many conjunctions is to make
  a polysyndeton.
• Polysyndeton gives the sense of an ever
  lengthening catalogue of roughly equal members.

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Examples Polysyndeton

• And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan
  the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the
  garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and
  his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and
  his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had.

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Example Polysyndeton

• How all the other passions fleet to air,
• As doubtful thoughts, and rash-
• embracd despair,
• And shuddering fear, and green-eyd
• jealousy.
• MV 3.2.105

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Juxtaposition

• An act or instance of placing close together or
  side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast.
• The state of being close together or side by
  side.
• In Romeo and Juliet, one way to think of things
  being "juxtaposed" is Juliet's love for Romeo as
  compared, side-by-side, to her father and
  mother's desire for her to marry Paris. For
  Juliet, looking at the two choices closely, there
  simply is no comparison.

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Juxtaposition

• Blind Sight, Cold Fire these are the
  juxtapositions of opposites, or oxymoron.
• The juxtaposition of two opposing ideas is called
  antithesis.
• Juxtaposition is the idea of putting two
  contrasting ideas side by side. For example,
  Michael Moore uses juxtaposition in Fahrenheit
  911, when he plays the song "What a Wonderful
  World" while playing scenes of war and violence.