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  2. Anaphora (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    Anaphora serves the purpose of delivering an artistic effect to a passage. It is also used to appeal to the emotions of the audience in order to persuade, inspire, motivate and encourage them. [ 3 ] In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 's famous " I Have a Dream " speech, he uses anaphora by repeating "I have a dream" eight times throughout the speech.

  3. Repetition (rhetorical device) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis.It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, such as Hindi and Chinese, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.

  4. List of long poems in English - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...

  5. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Anaphora: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Anastrophe : changing the object , subject and verb order in a clause. Anti-climax : an abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintended) on the part of a speaker or writer from the strong conclusion that appeared imminent.

  6. Limerick (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of the fable of Hercules and the Wagoner by Walter Crane in the limerick collection "Baby's Own Aesop" (1887). The standard form of a limerick is a stanza of five lines, with the first, second and fifth rhyming with one another and having three feet of three syllables each; and the shorter third and fourth lines also rhyming with each other, but having only two feet of three ...

  7. Poetic contraction - Wikipedia

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    In languages like French, elision removes the end syllable of a word that ends with a vowel sound when the next begins with a vowel sound, in order to avoid hiatus, or retain a consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel rhythm. [2] These poetic contractions originate from archaic English. By the end of the 18th century, contractions were generally looked ...

  8. Anaphora of Saint Gregory - Wikipedia

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    The Anaphora of Saint Gregory the Theologian follows the Antiochene (or "West Syriac") structure, which can be so summarized: Pre-anaphoric rites: the Prayer of the Veil; the Prayer of Reconciliation. Anaphora: the Opening Dialogue; the Preface, glorifying Christ and giving thanks to him for the creation.

  9. Sursum corda - Wikipedia

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    The Sursum corda (Latin for "Lift up your hearts" or literally, "Upwards hearts") is the opening dialogue to the Preface of the Eucharistic Prayer or Anaphora in Christian liturgies, dating back at least to the third century and the Anaphora of the Apostolic Tradition. The dialogue is recorded in the earliest liturgies of the Catholic Church in ...