Set of flashcards Text Analysis (Page 4 of 5)

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Language	Deutsch
Category	English
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

- polyptoton

- Frost

- irresistible (adj) & irresistibly (adv), desire (n) & desired (v)

(a kind of repetition using words with the same root)

You like it, it likes you.

- antimetabole

[OED: the same words or ideas are repeated in inverse order]

(repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order [used to reinforce antithesis] ABC/CBA)

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

- antimetabole

- Moliere

[OED: the same words or ideas are repeated in inverse order]

(repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order [used to reinforce antithesis] ABC/CBA)

We repeat what we remember and remember what we repeat. I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

- antimetabole

- Ovid

[OED: the same words or ideas are repeated in inverse order]

(repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order [used to reinforce antithesis] ABC/CBA)

By day the frolic, and the dance by night.

- chiasmus = the criss-cross

- Samuel Johnson

(reverse grammatical order, but without true repetition [used to reinforce antithesis ])

All Italy about I went.

- anastrophe

- Yoda-style

(inversion of the normal word order [startling; an effective attention-getting device])

Right you are!

- anastrophe

- Yoda-style

(inversion of the normal word order [startling; an effective attention-getting device])

Begun, the clone wars have

- anastrophe

- Yoda in Star Wars

(inversion of the normal word order [startling; an effective attention-getting device])

I don't want to live on in my work, I want to live on in my apartment.

- parallelism

- Woody Allen

(similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, clauses nouns/nouns; -ing/-ing)

Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was 'Civis Romanus sum.' Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'

- parallelism

(similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, clauses nouns/nouns; -ing/-ing)

Out of sight, out of mind.

- isocolon / tricolon / tetracolon

(phrases or clauses of equal length and parallel in syntax; result: rhythm)

Many will enter, few will win.

- isocolon / tricolon / tetracolon

(phrases or clauses of equal length and parallel in syntax; result: rhythm)

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

- isocolon / tricolon / tetracolon

(phrases or clauses of equal length and parallel in syntax; result: rhythm)

I came, I saw, I conquered.

- three-part-list: sogar tricolon

(phrases or clauses of equal length and parallel in syntax; result: rhythm)

& anaphora

& asyndeton

veni, vidi, vici

- alliteration: 3x "v..."

&three-part-list = sogar tricolon

& asyndeton

That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

- antithesis

- Neil Armstrong

juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure

The world will little note nor long remember

- antithesis

- Lincoln

juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure

Though studious, he was popular; though argumentative, he was modest; though inflexible, he was candid, and though metaphysical, yet orthodox.

- antithesis

- Samuel Johnson

(juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure)

I support this cause with body, heart and soul.

- three-part-list

& climax

(arrangement of words, phrases, clauses in order of increasing importance)

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

- three-part-list

& climax

(arrangement of words, phrases, clauses in order of increasing importance)

- Francis Bacon, Of Studies

The speaker lamented the loss of life, livelihoods and property.

- three-part-list

- & anticlimax

(arrangement of words, phrases, clauses in order of decreasing importance)

There is even, and it is the achievement of this book, a curious sense of happiness running through its paragraphs.

- parenthesis

(insertion of words so that they interrupt the flow of the text.[For a brief moment, we hear the authors voice])

- Nonnan Mailer

Rape is the sexual sin of the mob, adultery of the bourgeoisie, and incest of the aristocracy. (John Updike)

- ellipsis

- rape is the sexual sin of ..., adultery is the sexual sin of ..., and incest is the sexual sin of ...

(omission of words [artful & arresting way of securing economy of expression])

He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac. (Jack Kerouac)

- asyndeton

- omission of "and"

(omission of conjunctions [produces a hurried rhythm])

For breakfast he had juice and coffee and cereal and eggs and bacon and toast.

- polysyndeton

- insertion of numerous additional "and"

(deliberate use of many conjunctions [slows rhythm, produces a solemn note; can be used to produce special emphasis])

But nature is so uncomfortable. Grass is hard and lumpy and damp and full of dreadful black insects.

- polysyndeton

- insertion of numerous additional "and"

- Oscar Wilde

(deliberate use of many conjunctions [slows rhythm, produces a solemn note; can be used to produce special emphasis])

might and main

- siamese twins (Fowler)