Download May 2011 - Lou and Peter Berryman

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CLEMENTINE PARTIALLY PARSED
ASYNDETON: A
figure of omission in
which normally
occurring conjunctions are intentionally
omitted.
CONSONANCE: The repetition
of consonant sounds, especially
at the ends of words.
In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine
Dwelt a miner forty niner,
And his daughter Clementine
Chorus:
CATAPHORA: The use of
a pronoun to refer to a
word used later.
TAUTOPHRASE: A
phrase or sentence
that repeats an idea
in the same words.
ANASTROPHE:
A departure from
normal word order
for the sake of
emphasis. The
changing of the
position of only a
single word.
ALLITERATION:
The same sound
starts a series of
words or syllables.
CONJUNCTION
CONNECTOR
INTERJECTION
FEMININE RHYME,
also internal rhyme.
Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, Clementine!
You are lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorry, Clementine
Light she was and like a fairy,
And her shoes were number nine,
Herring boxes, without topses,
Sandals were for Clementine.
SIMILE
APOSTROPHE:
Turning from one
audience to
another. Most
often, apostrophe
occurs when
addressing an
abstraction, an
inanimate object,
or to the absent.
NEOLOGISM: A newly coined word
Drove she ducklings to the water
Ev'ry morning just at nine,
Hit her foot against a splinter,
ALLITERATION
Fell into the foaming brine.
PARADOX: An
apparent contradiction
with common sense.
MERISM: Referring to
a whole by enumerating
some of its parts.
Ruby lips above the water,
Blowing bubbles, soft and fine,
But, alas, I was no swimmer,
MASCULINE
So I lost my Clementine.
RHYME
ARCHAISM: Use of an
In my dreams she still doth haunt me,
obsolete, archaic, word.
Robed in garments soaked in brine.
PARAPROSDOKIAN: A phrase in
Though in life I used to hug her,
which the latter part causes a
Now she's dead, I'll draw the line.
ELISION: The omission of a
letter or syllable.
IDIOM: An expression whose
meaning is different from the
meaning of the individual words.
rethinking or reframing of the
beginning part.
Who cares ?
And moreover...
WZ May 2011
MEIOSIS: A euphemistic figure of
speech that intentionally understates
something.
© 2011 by
Peter Berryman
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RHETORICAL
QUESTION: A
question to which
no answer is
expected