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Introduction
For the benefit of the intelligent and inquisitive readers a brief
account of the figures of speech in English is submitted below:
eg
1. Allegory: (Greek allos other, agoreuo I speak). It is a device
giving detailed description of one thing under the image of
another.
Out of the head I sprung. Amazement seized
All the host of Heaven; back they recoiled afraid
At first and call me Sin, and for a sign
Portentious held me; but familiar grown
I pleased, and with attractive graces won
Milton, Paradise Lost
The most averse.
xxxiii
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2. Allusion: It denotes a passing or casual reference to an inci-
dent of the past either directly or indirectly or by implica-
tion. In Sanskrit literature, mention of allusions from the
Vedic or the classical tradition is very common and popular
both in prose and poetry.
eg Now we clap/Our hands, and cry Eureka, it is clear.
3. Alliteration : It is the commencement of two or more words
or a word group with the same letter or sound.
eg Lying silent and sad in the afternoon shadows and sun-
shine.
4. Anadiplosis: It is repetition in the first part of a clause or sentence
of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or
sentence, usually with a change or extension of meaning.
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eg Having power makes it (totalitarian leadership) isolated; iso-
lation breeds insecurity; insecurity breeds suspicion and fear;
suspicion and fear breed violence. - Zibigniew K Brzeninski,
The Permanent Purge, Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism
-
5. Anaphora (also called epanaphora): It is repetition of word or
words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses or
sentences.
Original from
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
For the benefit of the intelligent and inquisitive readers a brief
account of the figures of speech in English is submitted below:
eg
1. Allegory: (Greek allos other, agoreuo I speak). It is a device
giving detailed description of one thing under the image of
another.
Out of the head I sprung. Amazement seized
All the host of Heaven; back they recoiled afraid
At first and call me Sin, and for a sign
Portentious held me; but familiar grown
I pleased, and with attractive graces won
Milton, Paradise Lost
The most averse.
xxxiii
-
2. Allusion: It denotes a passing or casual reference to an inci-
dent of the past either directly or indirectly or by implica-
tion. In Sanskrit literature, mention of allusions from the
Vedic or the classical tradition is very common and popular
both in prose and poetry.
eg Now we clap/Our hands, and cry Eureka, it is clear.
3. Alliteration : It is the commencement of two or more words
or a word group with the same letter or sound.
eg Lying silent and sad in the afternoon shadows and sun-
shine.
4. Anadiplosis: It is repetition in the first part of a clause or sentence
of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or
sentence, usually with a change or extension of meaning.
Digitized by Google
eg Having power makes it (totalitarian leadership) isolated; iso-
lation breeds insecurity; insecurity breeds suspicion and fear;
suspicion and fear breed violence. - Zibigniew K Brzeninski,
The Permanent Purge, Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism
-
5. Anaphora (also called epanaphora): It is repetition of word or
words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses or
sentences.
Original from
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN