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Off topic but what is the name for this (as a style element?): > "Man, this is prison." > "Man, this is America."
by yread 10y ago
Off topic but what is the name for this (as a style element?):
> "Man, this is prison."
> "Man, this is America."
- rm_-rf_slash 10y agoIf I get what you're saying... 1: Regular text 2: >greentext On 4chan, starting a line with ">" makes the text green, hence the name. It is often used to write stories in the present tense, as in: >be me >be bored at work >go on HN >lol new* can't even greentext. >told him to delete system32
- NoGravitas 10y agoI don't think the GP is asking about quoting, but about the slightly altered repetition. "This is prison." "This is America." The best I can do for giving a name to it is [literary parallelism][0]. There may be a more specific poetic term, but I don't know it and couldn't come up with it. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(rhetoric) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(rhetoric)
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- seren 10y agoI believe this an Anaphora, even if in this case, repetition are not really close to each other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphora_%28rhetoric%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphora_%28rhetoric%29
- linguisticNoob 10y agoSide question to the side question: what's the term for that verbal habit some in the UK have developed in recent years, where the pronoun is restated at the end of the sentence? "That's good, that." Never found a good definition or analysis of it.
- jessaustin 10y agoLinked from there is "symploce", which may be a better match?
- tremon 10y agoThat's a fun question. The style element that repeats the leading parts of sentences is called anaphora, but it's usually used to emphasize the repeated part. Here it is more used to illustrate the (supposed, but lamented) contrast between society in and out of prison. On the whole, I'd say the expression is a form of dramatic sarcasm.