Ass in Creative Writing No. 3

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I n rhetoric, accumulation is a figure of speech in Your teeth are like a flock of sheep about to be sheared,
which a speaker or writer gathers scattered points who are coming up from being washed.
and lists them together. Also known as congeries.
6. Adnomination refers to the repetition of root words,
And the places on her body have no names. where (for example) "some" is the root word shared by both
And she is what’s immense about the night. "someone" and "somewhere". So, if a man were to wonder
And their clothes on the floor are arranged to there is someone, somewhere, who would have any
for forgetfulness. interest in what he is talking about, this would be an
adnomination.
Amassing similar or dissimilar things in a list so as to
provide a sort of climax.  Moist, Hoist, etc
 Nobody, Nowhere, nothing, etc
 Lipsmackin’, thirstquenchin’, acetastin’, motivatin’,  Somebody, Somewhere, somehow, etc
goodbuzzin’, cooltalkin’, highwalkin’, fastlivin’, evergivin’,
coolfizzin’ Pepsi.

A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an Examples


hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.
 He is nobody from nowhere and he
2. Adjunction is a rhetorical or literary term that is used to knows nothing.
refer to a sentence in which the verb is placed at either the  News is what somebody, somewhere wants to
very end or the very beginning instead of in the middle. The suppress; all the rest is advertising.
word is from the Latin adjunction for “join,” and its first
known use was in 1618. 

1. Dinner will be ready, I am sure, by 6pm.


2. Please turn in your homework right now.
3. The boy ran quickly.
4. Tomorrow, our class is going to the zoo.
5. The bread was cooling on the counter.

3. Alliteration is the repetition of an initial consonant sound


in words that are in close proximity to each other. 

 Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut by

Margaret Atwood

 Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards

 Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and

John Archambault

4. An allusion is a reference, typically brief, to a person,


place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the
reader is presumably familiar. As a literary device, allusion
allows a writer to compress a great deal of meaning and
significance into a word or phrase.

5. Anaphora is a figure of speech in which words repeat at


the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences. 

Look at you! You are beautiful, my darling.


Look at you! You are so beautiful.
Your eyes behind your veil are doves
your hair is like a flock of goats
coming down from Mt. Gilead.

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