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eg Why urge the chase so far astray?
Introduction
And why so late returned? and why-
--
The rest was in her speaking eye. -- Scott
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12. Apposition: When two co-ordinate elements are placed side
by side, and the second one serves as an explanation or mod-
ification of the first, it is called apposition.
eg
ification of the first, it is called apposition.
eg So, we would have gone together, the Orthodox and I.
13. Apostrophe: (Greek apo, aside and strepho, I turn; so it means
a turning away) In rhetoric, it is a digression in the form of an
address to someone not present, or to a presonified object or idea.
...
XXXV
eg
eg Unhappy man! and must you be swept into the grave, unno-
ticed and unnumbered and no friendly tears be shed for
ticed and unnumbered and no friendly tears be shed for
your sufferings or mingled with your dust? -- Robert Hall
(referring to the miseries of men wounded in war)
14. Asyndeton: It is deliberate omission of conjuctions between
a series.
eg
a series.
eg I came, I saw, I conquered. -- Shakespeare
... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the
survival and the sucess of liberty. -- John F Kennedy
15. Chiasmus: It is reversal of grammatical structures in succes-
sive clauses or phrases.
eg
eg Beauty is truth, truth beauty. -- Keats
16. Climax (Greek klimax, a laddar) It consists of a series of
related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding
in force or intensity.
Digitized by
eg
related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding
in force or intensity.
eg When a boy lays aside his tops, his marbles, and his bike in
favour of a girl, another girl, and still another girl, he becomes
a youth. When the youth discards his first girl, he becomes a
bachelor. And when the bachelor can stand it no longer, he
turns into a husband.
turns into a husband. -- from an article in Good Housekeeping
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Original from
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Introduction
And why so late returned? and why
The rest was in her speaking eye. -- Scott
-
12. Apposition: When two co-ordinate elements are placed side
by side, and the second one serves as an explanation or mod-
ification of the first, it is called apposition.
eg
ification of the first, it is called apposition.
eg So, we would have gone together, the Orthodox and I.
13. Apostrophe: (Greek apo, aside and strepho, I turn; so it means
a turning away) In rhetoric, it is a digression in the form of an
address to someone not present, or to a presonified object or idea.
...
XXXV
eg
eg Unhappy man! and must you be swept into the grave, unno-
ticed and unnumbered and no friendly tears be shed for
ticed and unnumbered and no friendly tears be shed for
your sufferings or mingled with your dust? -- Robert Hall
(referring to the miseries of men wounded in war)
14. Asyndeton: It is deliberate omission of conjuctions between
a series.
eg
a series.
eg I came, I saw, I conquered. -- Shakespeare
... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the
survival and the sucess of liberty. -- John F Kennedy
15. Chiasmus: It is reversal of grammatical structures in succes-
sive clauses or phrases.
eg
eg Beauty is truth, truth beauty. -- Keats
16. Climax (Greek klimax, a laddar) It consists of a series of
related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding
in force or intensity.
Digitized by
eg
related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding
in force or intensity.
eg When a boy lays aside his tops, his marbles, and his bike in
favour of a girl, another girl, and still another girl, he becomes
a youth. When the youth discards his first girl, he becomes a
bachelor. And when the bachelor can stand it no longer, he
turns into a husband.
turns into a husband. -- from an article in Good Housekeeping
Original from
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN