 | Frank Byron Jevons - 1892 - 528 pàgines
...1 and all the " figures of thought." 2 Under the " figures of speech " are included asyndeton, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive sentences (anaphora), the assonance of whole words "AXiM>$ trorafjLou. Blass puts these words into... | |
 | Ambroise ((saint ;), Sister Mary Dolorosa Mannix, Mary Dolorosa Mannix - 1925 - 190 pàgines
...figure in which, for emphasis, an author denies his own statement ; and of an imperfect anaphora, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences, a favorite device of the Eoman orator; and of homoioptoton, a figure... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo) - 1926 - 612 pàgines
...figure in which, for emphasis, an author denies his own statement ; and of an imperfect anaphora, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or sentences, a favorite device of the Roman orator; and of homoioptoton, a figure... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 pàgines
...times. Other constantly used figures are terminal or medial rhyme (true and slant), antithesis, anaphora (repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive poetic lines), epizeuxis (repetition of the same word immediately, with no intermission), and epanalepsis... | |
 | Paul M. Waszink - 1988 - 346 pàgines
...Curtius' definition of it is important: "An example of a figure of language is anaphora, that is, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses". Reference is made by him, in this connection, to two verse-lines by Schiller: 'Sei mir gegrusst, mein... | |
 | Paul M. Waszink - 1988 - 346 pàgines
...Curtius' definition of it is important: "An example of a figure of language is anaphora, that is, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses". Reference is made by him, in this connection, to two verse-lines by Schiller: 'Sei mir gegrusst, mein... | |
 | Thomas H. Neale, Jean M. Bowers - 2003 - 54 pàgines
...subsidies, determines the winner," or, "...the nattering nabobs of negativism... ." Anaphora This is the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. Churchill's famous defiance of Hitler, "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight... | |
 | Emma Smith - 2007 - 6 pàgines
...use of rhetorical devices including apostrophe (address to an absent person or abstraction); anaphora (repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences); gradatio (building up of an argument to a climax); isocolon (parallel syntactic structures)... | |
 | Alex Davis, Lee M. Jenkins - 2007 - 280 pàgines
...sure, is acting in concert with other rhetorical devices, in this case the use of anaphora (or the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive sentences: 'These were the . . .' and 'These the . . .'). But, since the repeated words no longer perform... | |
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An example of a figure of language is anaphora, that is, the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses". 