Wednesday, February 5, 2014


  1. Climax- The highest most intense point in the development or resolution of something.
  •  "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it.
     2. Diacope- a cutting in two- the repetition of a word or phrase broken up by one or more intervening

  • "I hate to be poor, and we are degradingly poor, offensively poor, miserably poor, beastly poor."
    3. Conduplicatio- something folded lengthways on itself
  • "Where have all the flowers gone?
    Long time passing.
    Where have all the flowers gone?
    Long time ago.
    Where have all the flowers gone?
    Girls have picked them every one.
    When will they ever learn?
    When will they ever learn?"
    4. Dirnimens Copulatio- series of statements that balances one idea with a contrasting idea.
  • a"This poor girl shouldn't just tell that guy to go jump in a lake, she ought to slash all four of his car tires . . .."
    5. Distinctio- for explicit references to various meanings of a word- usually for the purpose of removing ambiquities.
  • "[I]t would be a long while before I would come to understand the particular moral of the story.

    "It would be a long while because, quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean 'love' in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that same way again."

2 comments:

  1. Hi! Marquita. You might want to check out this website on climax before your presentation: http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/climax.htm Also, it seems that some of your devices are a bit confusing. I think you might want to do some more research to understand them thoroughly before you present.

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  2. which words are confusing? I personally don't understand any of them but two

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