These are examples for the terms from the Stylistic Device packet - the one that contains all of the stylistic devices we used in our vocab papers.
*Please note that the terms "Absolute" and "Zeugma" have been exluded from this list as we do not to know them for the exam.
**The terms "Extended Parallelism," "The Parallel Paragraph," and "Periodic Paragraph" have also been excluded, simply because they are just extended versions of parallels and periodic sentences.
*The terms "Isocolon" and "Simple Parallel" only have one example each.
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| 48668864 | Anadiplosis | Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain. | |
| 48668865 | Anadiplosis | He talked at length about war games. "Games," however, seems an inappropriate term for strategies that lead to destruction and death. | |
| 48668866 | Anaphora | So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. . . . | |
| 48668867 | Anaphora | We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, . . . | |
| 48668868 | Antithesis | I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil. | |
| 48668869 | Antithesis | If we try, we might succeed; if we do not try, we cannot succeed. | |
| 48668870 | Chiasmus | Never let a fool kiss you, and never let a kiss fool you. | |
| 48668871 | Chiasmus | He made football players out of some men. I think he's much more proud that he made men out of some football players. | |
| 48668872 | Epanalepsis | Water alone dug this giant canyon, yes, just plain water. | |
| 48668873 | Epanalepsis | Believe not all you can hear; tell not all you believe. | |
| 48668874 | Epistrophe | Where affections bear rule, there reason is subdued, honesty is subdued, good will is subdued, and all things else that withstand evil, forever are subdued. | |
| 48668875 | Epistrophe | All the night he did nothing but weep Philoclea, sigh Philoclea, and cry out Philoclea. | |
| 48668876 | Isocolon | His purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous. | |
| 48668878 | Polyptoton | Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove. | |
| 48668879 | Polyptoton | Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. | |
| 48668880 | Polysyndeton | It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. | |
| 48668881 | Polysyndeton | I said, "Who killed him?" and he said, "I don't know who killed him but he's dead all right," and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down. . . | |
| 48668884 | Apposition | The bear, a massive black object, frightened the small children. | |
| 48668885 | Apposition | I ran from the woman, a wrinkled stranger. | |
| 48668886 | Asyndeton | I came, I saw, I conquered. | |
| 48668887 | Asyndeton | The elephants charged, the horses scattered, the Big Top tent fell down. | |
| 48668888 | Ellipsis | The man lost three teeth, the woman two. | |
| 48668889 | Ellipsis | Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. | |
| 48668890 | Hyperbaton | She had a personality indescribable. | |
| 48668891 | Hyperbaton | It was a long operation but successful. | |
| 48668894 | Loose sentence | He cares about only one thing -- his laptop computer. | |
| 48668895 | Loose sentence | He learned to fix cars from Alice McMahon, an elderly spinster who used to spend her spare time partying with Volvo mechanics. | |
| 48668896 | Interrupted sentence | These students -- selfish, deceitful, and sadistic -- were evidence of their parent's muddled values. | |
| 48668897 | Interrupted sentence | The teacher -- what could she have been thinking -- gave all the students A's on the exam. | |
| 48668898 | Periodic sentence | Throwing her prom dress out the window, she vowed to spend the rest of her life as a welder. | |
| 48668899 | Periodic sentence | With jaunty arms and style in his step, whistling barely beneath his breath, Jerome struts down the street. | |
| 48668900 | Simple parallel | She looked tired, frustrated, and disgusted. | |
| 48668902 | Complex parallel | Robert E. Lee was a foe without hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without cruelty. | |
| 48668903 | Complex parallel | The average American citizen is apathetic to the political process, confused by legislative deviousness, manipulated by the power structures and ignorant of what all this can mean to his or her life. |
