![]() ![]() ![]() Or Sam I Am eating green eggs and ham on a boat with a goat. ![]() Seuss’s lilting rhythmsĪnd rhymes about cats in hats or elephants who are ‘faithful, one hundred percent’ Just tell her a riddle, or alliterative words, or read her Dr. If you want to make a three-year-old child roll on the floor laughing, We are born to love language and everything associated with it- rhythm, rhyme, word Until their junior high school English teacher gets ahold of them and presents grammarĪs a set of rules, a set of “Thou shalt not” commandments that you must abide by orīe doomed to wander in the darkness of a poor grade. Believe it or not, most people like grammar Yet grammar should not be so disrespected. Professor is anything like me, she or he tries to avoid the word in your class. Such that the word is hardly ever used in polite company. However, the general aversion to the word “grammar” is Perhaps I am exaggerating just a bit not all of us hate grammar. 1 The mere word makes adults weep, children run and hide, and dogs howl. The grammar of those pieces to gain a better understanding of how they can control To look at the writing that they see in their casual or research reading and evaluate Style, rather than focusing on the correctness of the grammar. In other words, this essay focuses on using grammar to influence a piece of writing’s The structure of the sentences, the use of punctuation, using active or passive voice,Įtc. Rather, grammar can be used rhetorically-withĪn understanding of the writing situation and making appropriate choices regarding More than just the rules that we have been taught. Look at the effects produced by the anadiplosis.This essay focuses on grammar, specifically on understanding that grammar is much ![]() This is an excerpt of dialogue from the famous movie Gladiator (2000), in which a general is sold as a slave, who then had to work as a gladiator to make himself known in the arena and then defy the emperor. Example #6: Gladiator movie (By David Franzoni) Here, he has stressed the word “Marathon,” and repeated it to make it significant in the poem. This is a good use of anadiplosis by Lord Byron. “The mountains look on Marathon – And Marathon looks on the sea …” Example #5: The Isles of Greece (By Lord Byron) Here, Bacon has used the word “misfortunes” twice, to bring home to his readers the main idea he is discussing, which is that misfortune is always unpredictable. “He retained his virtues amidst all his – misfortunes – misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent.” The message is further enhanced by the use of the word “verbatim.” Example #4: Untitled (By Francis Bacon) The writer clearly wants his readers to focus on what he is saying and repeating in these lines. Just observe the beautiful use of the phrase, “what I remember of the letter,” as an anadiplosis. “What I present here is what I remember of the letter, and what I remember of the letter I remember verbatim (including that awful French).” For instance, “Forget what you want to remember, and remember what you want to forget” is an example of chiasmus (as it involves a reversal of structure in the second clause) and anadiplosis, as the word “remember” marks the end of one clause and the start of the subsequent clause.Īnadiplosis does not always employ a reversal of structure as in the sentence “The land of my fathers, and my fathers can have it.” It is an example of anadiplosis involving a typical repetition of the word “my fathers” but, unlike chiasmus, the structure of the final clause is not reversed. However, every anadiplosis does not necessarily reverse its structure like it is done in chiasmus. It is important to note that anadiplosis is part of another figure of speech, chiasmus. Similarly, notice how the use of anadiplosis repeats in its typical fashion the word “reliability” to highlight the main point of the sentence, “This public school has a record of extraordinary reliability, a reliability that every other school is jealous of in the city.” Anadiplosis and Chiasmus For example, the repetition of the word “give” in the sentence “When I give, I give myself” is termed anadiplosis, as it occurs at the end of the first clause and marks the beginning of the following clause. Anadiplosis exhibits a typical pattern of repeating a word. ![]()
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