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title: "Repetition, Anaphora, Polysyndeton, Anticlimax, Inversion"
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# Repetition, Anaphora, Polysyndeton, Anticlimax, Inversion

> Hello my friends! I like Charles Dickens's stories and I want to write about stylistic devices which...

Hello my friends! I like Charles Dickens's stories and I want to write about stylistic devices which were used by the writer in the "A Christmas Carol".

1. **Repetition** - the reoccurrence of sentence units. Words or phrases are repeated throughout the text to emphasize certain facts or ideas.

*Example: The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.*

2. **Anaphora.** The same word or phrase is used to begin successive clauses or sentences. Thus, the reader's / listener's attention is drawn directly to the message of the sentence.

*Example: No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.*

3. **Polysyndeton** is the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted. It is a stylistic scheme used to achieve a variety of effects: it can increase the rhythm of prose, speed or slow its pace, convey solemnity or even ecstasy and childlike exuberance.

*Example: The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail, and sleet, could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect.*

4. **Anticlimax** refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance.

*Example: Also that Scrooge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the city of London, even including - which is a bold word - the corporation, aldermen, and livery.*

5. **Inversion **– an indirect order of words in a sentence to make one of them more conpricuous, important, or emphatic.

*Example: Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for that.*

*[http://www.classes.ru/grammar/30.Ocherki_po_stilistike_angliyskogo_yazyka/html/unnamed_27.html](http://www.classes.ru/grammar/30.Ocherki_po_stilistike_angliyskogo_yazyka/html/unnamed_27.html) *

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[http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/writing-anticlimax-figure-of-speech.php](http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/writing-anticlimax-figure-of-speech.php)

Very useful site: [http://estylistics.blogspot.com/](http://estylistics.blogspot.com/)

Thank you for attention!

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