<p>This will become really helpful when it comes to May.</p>
<p>Start with me,</p>
<p>anaphora- repetitions of words, usually more than three times.</p>
<p>Example:The president is wise, confident and forceful.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html</a> ??</p>
<p>The example doesn't really illustrate anaphora...</p>
<p>A general rule of thumb is that it occurs in succesive sentences. But the words that are repeated should be the same, not similar.</p>
<p>that's what my AP teacher told us</p>
<p>Synecdoche: Part stands for whole.</p>
<p>E.g.: "Hired hands"--hands stand for workers</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>"All hands on deck"--hands stand for participation, motivation</p>
<p>Metonymy: whole stands for part</p>
<p>e.g. "The White House today decided that smoking is bad."</p>
<p>"The White House" really represents the people inside, like congressmen.</p>
<p>ok so i'm a junior taking ap lang in may...PLEASE GIVE ME ADVICE..what's the format/</p>
<p>Oh and anaphora is like repetition of a specific phrase, not synonyms.</p>
<p>So, for example:
I have a dream..that one day...
I have a dream...
I have a dream...</p>
<p>or in Julius Caesar, when Marc Antony gives that speech...I don't remember what he says though, haha...soph year seems like forever ago</p>
<p>^^ that's more like parallelism</p>
<p>I would think that an anaphora would be like...using and between every word, or something of the sort.</p>
<p>"She swam and laughed and shivered and blah and blah."</p>
<p>The Congressmen in the White House? =P</p>
<p>"I would think that an anaphora would be like...using and between every word, or something of the sort."</p>
<p>What you are talking about is asyndeton, like "The boy swam and ran and fell" etc. Polysyndeton is the use of commas instead, i.e "The boy swam, ran, fell."</p>
<p>And anaphora is the repitition of a word or phrase, it is parallelism in a way. But, it just be one word ie "Never have I laughed so much, never had I dreamed so big, never had I felt so fulfilled."</p>
<p>^ got it, i was just guessing...</p>
<p>But I would call the 'I have a dream' speech more like parallelism than an anaphora.</p>
<p>Well the "I Have a Dream Speech" contains both, but it is well known for its anaphora according to a practice packet of the "I Have a Dream Speech".</p>
<p>Anadiplosis - repitition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause
Ex: "The crime was common, common be the pain." - Alexander Pope</p>
<p>Chiasmus - when order of terms in first clause reverses in second
Ex: "He knowingly lied and we folloed blindly."</p>
<p>Litote - using negative to convey the intensity
Ex: "She is not a bad cook."</p>
<p>wooo, so this is my 1st post ever. but i know this stuff pretty well from ap english as well as ap latin</p>
<p>ok. first, LifeUnfolding i'm pretty sure you got polysyndeton and asyndeton mixed up. polysyndeton is excess conjunctions, and asyndeton is the omission of conjunctions (think greek roots: poly-many, a-without). and...BoredPirate, i think it is litotes, not litote. </p>
<p>and here's my list (the ones that aren't on that link up there):</p>
<p>epistrophe- repetition at the end phrases: "government of the people, by the people, and for the people"</p>
<p>antimetabole- repetition of a word or group in successive clauses in reverse order (like chiasmus, but it's using the exact words, not just the parts of speech): "all for one, and one for all"</p>
<p>polyptoton: the repetition of a word in a different form: (from Catullus 45.20) "mutuis animis amant amantur" --the use of different forms of the verb to love; like anaphora, but in different forms</p>
<p>that's it for now, maybe i'll put some up later. i hope this helps, because i'm taking the exam in may as well, and i know it's pretty hard to get a 5</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>I got a B in my english class, and got a 5.
And looking at my above posts, I obviously don't know that much.</p>
<p>It really depends on how you are feeling that day, and if you are in a writing mood. Seriously. </p>
<p>Don't stress too much, just know the simple stuff, and keep practicing.</p>
<p>Wow, I was REALLY having a blonde moment. Thank you birk for pointing that out, I think the "a" from anaphora stuck with me oops! I have no idea why I said that, especialyl since I'm always using and labeling asyndeton on my papars <em>shakes head.</em></p>
<p>Just FYI guys, none of these matter on the actual test, you don't actually have to know them to get a 5</p>
<p>When they ask you to analyze the rhetoical and stylistic devices you do. </p>
<p>Plus, they add interest and variety to your writing.</p>
<p>yeah they're useful but don't stress about them</p>
<p>I also tied parallelism with anaphora closely first semester.</p>
<p>But now that we've defined so many rhetorical devices, parallelism is discarded for several more specific devices.</p>
<p>climax- placing events in order of importance, i.e. He burned his toast, ruined the conversation at lunch, and got fired from his job. (note least to greatest importance)</p>
<p>The worst thing you could do on your free response is label a literary device wrong, or mix up what the speaker is trying to say. (For instance, you don't get that it is satire). So, instead of getting boggled down by all these specific devices, just worry about the major ones.</p>
<p>If, on the test day, you see a device, and can't figure out it's specific name/usage, just describe its effect, or call it by its general term.</p>