Literary Toolbox Part 2 9/26

In class today we continued expanding our literary toolbox by learning words from a different group. The group had the section called Structural choices with five literary devices. The five literary devices are  anadiplosis, anaphora, antithesis, asyndeton,and polysyndeton. I had never even heard of any of these before so I did learn some new literary devices today. In American Literature, we had to understand the definition of the literary device and then give our own example on one slide, to show that we understood the word. Anadiplosis means when a word is at the end of a sentence and the same word is at the beginning of the next sentence. My group's example was "jump over the rivers. Rivers is on the other side".  We learned that anaphora means the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of one or more sentences. The other group's example was " You are nice, you are smart, you are funny".  Antithesis means where two opposite ideas are put together. For example, "It was the best of times, but it was the worst of times".  The two last ones are opposites, asyndeton and polysyndeton. Asyndeton means when you eliminate conjunction words and replace them with punctuation. However, polysyndeton is when you eliminate punctuation and add conjunction words. For asyndeton, the group's example was "Chris loves video games, books, movies, sports, school and food". Their example for polysyndeton was "Catherine likes working and school and friends and her phone and softball and her chromebook". We also learned an acronym for the conjunction words, FANBOYS. F:for, A:and, N:nor, B:but, O:or, Y:yet, and S:so.