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English Name
Category
Definition
Emphasis
Notes
ALEG
Allegory
Allegory
Illustration
Continued comparison by representation or implication
Points of comparison
Allegory is a broader term in Semitic languages. It is rather what we would call an “illustration” or “incident”
ANBS
Anabasis
Gradual Ascent
Rhetoric
An increase of sense in successive sentences
The logic of the sentences
ANCL
Anacoluthon
Non-Sequence
Rhetoric
A breaking off the sequence of thought
The new pronoun
Beginning of the change of pronoun is important to note
ANDP
Anadiplosis
Like Sentence Endings and Beginnings
Repetition
The repetition of the same word or words at the end of one sentence and at the beginning of another
Most important words
ANAE
Anaeresis
Detraction
Parentheses
A parenthetic addition complete in itself, a detraction by a negative expression
The positive opposite
The negative appears to take something away but really is adding to it (Cf. Tapeinosis)
ANAP
Anaphora
Like Sentence-Beginnings
Repetition
Repetition of the same word at the beginning of successive sentences
Calls special attention to statements and arguments
ANTC
Antanaclasis
Word-Clashing
Repetition
Repetition of the same word in the same sentence, with different meanings
1st meaning used is more important
Homonym – same word has more than one usage (e.g., sin)
ANTH
Anthropopatheia
Condescension
Meaning
The ascribing of human attributes to God
God’s diversity and greatness
Hebrew name is Derech Benai Adam, “the way of the sons of man”
ANTM
Antimeria
Exchange of Parts of Speech
Meaning
The exchange of a noun for an adjective or adverb
The changed word
The second noun is the adjective
ANTS
Antiprosopopeia
Anti-Personification
Illustration
Persons represented as inanimate things
Characteristics of a person
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