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  2. Anastrophe - Wikipedia

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    Anastrophe (from the Greek: ἀναστροφή, anastrophē, "a turning back or about") is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed. Anastrophe is a hyponym of the antimetabole , where anastrophe only transposes one word in a sentence.

  3. Hyperbaton - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbaton / h aɪ ˈ p ɜːr b ə t ɒ n /, in its original meaning, is a figure of speech in which a phrase is made discontinuous by the insertion of other words. [1] In modern usage, the term is also used more generally for figures of speech that transpose sentences' natural word order, [2] [3] which is also called anastrophe.

  4. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Anastrophe – inversion of the natural word order. Anecdote – a brief narrative describing an interesting or amusing event. Antanaclasis – a figure of speech involving a pun , consisting of the repeated use of the same word, each time with different meanings.

  5. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  6. Scheme (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    Anastrophe – Inversion of the usual word order Parenthesis – Insertion of a clause or sentence in a place where it interrupts the natural flow of the sentence Apposition – The placing of two elements side by side, in which the second defines the first

  7. Pericles's Funeral Oration - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] The speech is full of rhetorical devices, such as antithesis, anacoluthon, asyndeton, anastrophe, hyperbaton, and others; most famously the rapid succession of proparoxytone words beginning with e (" τὸ εὔδαιμον τὸ ἐλεύθερον, τὸ δ' ἐλεύθερον τὸ εὔψυχον κρίναντες ...

  8. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Example: "She sells sea shells by the sea shore". Anadiplosis: repetition of a word at the end of a clause and then at the beginning of its succeeding clause. Anaphora: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Anastrophe: changing the object, subject and verb order in a clause.

  9. Synchysis - Wikipedia

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    A highly common occurrence in Virgil's Aeneid, [5] an example is aurea purpuream subnectit fibula vestem, "a golden clasp bound her purple cloak" (Virgil, Aeneid 4.139). Usually, synchysis is formed through the adjective A - adjective B - noun A - noun B structure, but it can also exist as adjective-noun-adjective-noun .