The Structural Choices of our Literary Toolbox(9/26)

So today in class we began to really dive into our literary toolbox. Metaphorically speaking, of course. The first and only topic we went over today was the structural choices. These words were anadiplosis, anaphora, antistrophe, antithesis, asyndeton, and polysyndeton (actually this is an example of a asyndeton!!). For the absentees, I will give a broad explanation of what each term really is, but I highly, highly recommend going to the literary toolbox in the classroom for a better definition. To begin, an anadiplosis is when the end of one sentence or clause is the beginning of the following sentence or clause. An anaphora is the repetition of a word or phrase in multiple clauses. An antistrpohe is the exact opposite of an anaphora. Instead of having repetition at the beginning it has it at the end! The antithesis is opposite words such as love and hate near each other in a sentence or following sentence. An asyndeton is when there is an absence of conjunctions(or F.A.N.B.O.Y.S) in a sentence. Instead of the conjunctions there is a comma put in its place. A great example of this can be shown above. The polysyndeton is the opposite of the asyndeton where instead of having no conjunctions you have many conjunctions. Those were all of the Structural choices in our literary toolbox and what was reviewed in class today.
In the real world, these can be extremely useful and are used commonly. Especially in speeches or poetry. The I have a Dream Speech by M.L.K. is actually one long anaphora. I have a dream that... I have a dream that...  And so on and so forth. These can be used to list ideas in an argumentative source and can be used as great pieces of rhetoric in your essay. Even a polysyndeton can be added to a poem or speech to really inspire someone and reiterate what point you are trying to get across. Even in children books these literary terms can be identified. Even Dr. Seuss(who wasn't even a real doctor) used them!