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o I cant take more”.
“You mean, you cant take less”, said the Hatter: “Its very easy to take more than nothing”.
. Carroll
Antithesis
- Most of the children here have had measles. Those that havent are sure to have it sooner or later.
A.J. Cronin
- His cigar bobbed up and down, discharging ash partly on himself, partly on the polished linoleum floor.
A. Hailey
- It was a signal of tuberculosis; whether old or recent they would know in a moment.
A. Hailey
- “Storm or not, contracts decreed that air freight perishables must arrive at destination fresh, and swiftly”.
- Hailey
Detached construction
Parenthesis
- His place of business whatever high-class dentists choose to call it was quite ready for him when he arrived at Hanbridge.
A. Bennett
- She had a warmth of spirit he had once described it to himself as a strong kindness that was at once soothing and restoring.
A. Hailey
- As he watched her now she had stopped to speak with one of the interns he saw her raise a hand and push back her hair from the side of her face.
A. Hailey
- After tea, while Mary had gone to wash the dishes, - she insisted that Christine looked tired, - Andrew detached the baby from Mrs. Boland and played with it on the hearthrug before the fire.
A.J. Cronin
- He ran up the porch steps, threw open the front door and there, in the hall, he found Llewellyn.
A. J. Cronin
The author inserts the phrase “in the hall” into this statement to give additional information. This sentence is logically and grammatically completed even without this phrase.
- Next he constructed, very simply, a dust chamber in which for certain hours of the day the animals were exposed to concentrations of the dust, others being unexposed the controls.
- Cronin
With the word “the controls” the author gives explanation of other animals being unexposed.
Anadiplosis (linking, reduplication)
- He asked her to step in, and in she stepped.
- Bennett
The author uses the same phrase both at the end of a clause and at the beginning of the successive one.
- “There was a cold bitter taste in the air, and new-lighted lamps looked sad. Sad were the lights in the houses opposite.”
K. Mansfield
The author uses the same word “sad” both at the end of a sentence and at the beginning of the successive one.
- With one hand, Danny was using a red telephone; with the other, leafing through emergency orders Mels orders, carefully drawn up for occasions such as this.
- Hailey
The author uses the same phrase both at the end of a clause and at the beginning of the successive one.
Ellipsis
- “You see these three teeth?”
- Bennett
The author uses ellipsis to show that the character speaks in familiar colloquial tone.
- “They should be through, or almost.” “They might be if we could find the frigging truck”
- Hailey
The word “through” is omitted, though the context of the sentence does not suffer.
- “You can have your bit of snap straight off to-night. No surgery. Dai Jenkins done it.”
- Hailey
Omission of link verb “Dai Jenkins has done it”
- “A pause, then more aggressively, “Any other damnfool stupid notion?”
A. Hailey
Asyndeton
- With a laugh he would rise, stretch himself, swing round his lenses, put the slides away.
A.J. Cronin
The author writes without conjunctions in order to speed up the action.
- “Bicket did not answer his throat felt too dry.”
Galsworthy
Here we can see the absence of the conjunction “because”.
- He glanced up, laid down his cigarette, went into the hall.
A.J. Cronin
- His shoes were black laced boots, good boots, honest boots, standard boots, extraordinarily uninteresting boots.
S.Lewis
Anticlimax
- The children began upon the chocolate biscuits and ended with a fight for the last piece of bread.
A.J. Cronin
The author creates a comic effect with this unexpected ending of the sentence.
- They were going to give him a free hand, back him up with their immense authority, turn him loose on his clinical research. “But, gentlemen”, Billy suddenly pipped, shuffling himself a new deal from his coat pockets, “before Doctor Manson goes on with this problem, before we can feel ourselves at liberty to allow him to concentrate his efforts upon it, there is another and, more pressing matter, which I feel he ought to take up.”
A.J. Cronin
- “Perhaps its a call, Chris! Think of it! My first Aberalaw case.”
He dashed into the hall.
It was not a case, however, but Doctor Llewellyn, telefoning his welcome from his home at the other end of the town.
A.J. Cronin
- The gray suit was well cut, well made, and completely undistinguished. His shoes were black laced boots, good boots, honest boots, standard boots, extraordinarily uninteresting boots.
S.Lewis
Anaphora
- He told her she was a sweet, exquisite child. He told her he had been a brute to her but that for the rest of his life he would be a carpet not red, since she interjected her objection to that colour on which she might tread. He told her much more than that.
A.J. Cronin
Here the author uses a serial repetition of the phrase “he told her” at the beginning of 3 consecutive sentences.
- She laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks. She laughed so hard that he sat up, concerned.
A.J. Cronin
- Could a man own anything prettier than this dining-table with its deep tints, the starry, soft-petalled roses, the ruby-coloured glass, and quaint silver furnishing; could a man own anything prettier than a woman who sat at it?
J. Galsworthy
The author uses repetition of the phrase “could a man own anything prettier than” at the beginning of the sentence and at the beginning of the clause.
Epiphora
- Dear God, he had done it! He had done it! He was through, he had done it!
A.J. Cronin
Repeated unit is placed at the end of consecutive sentences.
- “The reports are taking too long. Much too long.”
A. Hailey
- “I havent got a job. Im not looking for a job. Furthermore, I am not going to look for a job.”
J. London
The author repeats a word “job” at the end of consecutive sentences.
Aposiopesis
- “Good afternoon”, said Mr. Cowlishaw “Have you…Can I…”
- Bennett
The character is worried, this why he cant end his statements.
- “But, George, maybe its very important for you to go and learn all that about cattle judging and soils and those things… Of course, I dont know.”
O. Wilde
The author uses aposiopesis to show the nervousness and worry of the character.
- “Listen, Emily, Im going to tell you why Im not going to Agriculture School. I think that once youre found a person that youre very fond of… I mean a person whos fond of you, too, and likes you enough to be interested in your character… Well, I think thats just as important as college is, and even more so. Thats what I think.”
O. Wilde
Hyperbaton
- “I know there was a bit of misunderstanding between your Tom and me. But its Christmas and oh, well, I want ” he broke down lamely, - “I mean, Id be awfully pleased if the three of you would come round and help us eat our Christmas dinner.”
A.J. Cronin
The author uses hyperbaton to show the high-strung state of the speakers mind.