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Advanced Literary Terms

Advanced Literary Terms

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English

12th Grade

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Christopher Dilts

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1.

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words in reverse grammatical order. Example: “Eat to live, not live to eat.”

2.

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Anastrophe

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Inversion of the normal word order in a sentence.

3.

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Apposition

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Placing elements side by side, one defining the other.

4.

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Asyndeton

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The omission of conjunctions in a list for emphasis. Example: X, Y, Z

5.

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Epanalepsis

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Repetition at the beginning and end of a sentence. Example: “Common sense is not so common.”

6.

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Hypotactic

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Use of connecting words to show logical relationships between clauses. Example: “I am tired because it is hot.”

7.

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Litotes

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An understatement using double negatives. Example: “Not bad” to mean “good”

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