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English III AP
Anastrophe to Apposition
| Term | Example |
|---|---|
| : An anastrophe is a rhetorical term for the inversion of conventional word order. Adjective: anastrophic. | "Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. (Yoda in Star Wars: Episode V--The Empire Strikes Back, 1980) |
| In literature, an antagonist is a character or a group of characters which stand in opposition to the protagonist or the main character. | An example of an ____________ is the character of “Iago” in Shakespeare’s “Othello”. Iago stands as the most notorious villains of all time who spends all his time in plotting against Othello, the protagonist, and his wife Desdemona. |
| Anthropomorphism is a literary device that can be defined as when a writer ascribes human traits, ambitions, emotions etc to animals, non-human beings, natural phenomena or objects. Differs from personification in that it is more literal. | “Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough.” As spoken by the pig, Old Major, in Animal Farm. |
| Anthimeria- A rhetorical term for the use of one part of speech (or word class) in place of another. In grammatical studies, anthimeria is known as a functional shift or conversion. | Kate: He's still in the rec room, right? Hurley: I moved him to the boathouse. . . . You just totally Scooby-Doo'd me, didn't you? ("Eggtown," Lost, 2008) |
| In rhetoric, an antimetabole is a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C, C-B-A). Ex. “Stop static before static stops you!” | "Women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget." (Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937) |
| Antithesis-A rhetorical term for the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases or clauses. Plural: antitheses. Adjective: antithetical | "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, [...] we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way." |
| Antonomasia- rhetorical term for the substitution of a title, epithet, or descriptive phrase for a proper name(or of a personal name for a common name) to designate a member of a group or class | "When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always." (Rita Rudner) |
| Apostrophe- a figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person, concept, or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding. | Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me. (By John Donne) |
| Apposition- The placement side-by-side of two coordinate elements (usually noun phrases), the second of which serves to identify or rename the first. Usually sandwiched between two commas as unnecessary information. | "Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror." (P.G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves, 1934) |
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