OCD 7 th PERIOD

1. OCD 7th PERIOD LITERARY RHETORICAL DEVICES

2. ANTIMETABOLE • Repetition of words in reverse order • Ex: When the going gets tough, the tough get going. • Ex: Eat to live, but do not live to eat.

3. ANTITHESIS • A contrast between two words or phrases. • Ex: Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit. • Ex: When Hell freezes over! • Ex: Many are called, but few are chosen.

4. GRADUALISM • Moving through milder words to the strongest word at the end of a phrase or sentence. • Ex: The continuance of anger is hatred; the continuance of hatred turns to malice.

5. OXYMORON • Two words with opposite meanings accompanying each other in a sentence. • Ex: Dry Ice • Ex: Icy Hot • Ex: Jumbo Shrimp

6. ANADIPLOSIS • Repeat the end of the last sentence in the beginning of the next. • Ex: Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

7. ANAPHORA • Repeating word(s) in the beginning of two or more consecutive sentences, verses, clauses. • We came. We saw. We Conquered. • The sky was blue. The sky was brilliantly blue.

8. ANTONOMASIA • The use of a title instead of a name. • Ex: Calling a judge “Your Honor” • Ex: When I actually met “Mr. Right” I had no idea that his first name was “Always.”

9. APOSTROPHE • Words addressed to a thing or person that is absent. • Ex: Hello darkness my old friend, I have come to talk to you again. • Ex: Oh western wind when wilt thou blow?

10. ASYNDENTON • Omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. • A list of words or phrases. • Ex: We came. We saw. We conquered. • Ex: I like French, wheat, cinnamon, raisin bread.

11. CLIMAX • Progressing from a lesser to a greater degree of quality or quantity. • Ex: I began by sitting in a chair, then driving a car, then flying a plane, then piloting a spaceship.