Enumeratio

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 * Definition:: **The figure of speech in which you can take a simple statement and expand it. It can be dragged out into numerous details.


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Definition taken from: changingminds.org


 * Examples ** from text:

1) In "La Siesta Del Martes", the author expands on the details of there being nearly no one in the town awake, and turns it into a over detailed paragraph:

"Only those two were about. At this hour, overwhelmed by

sleepiness, the town had its siesta. The stores, the civic offices,

the town’s school, all were closed from 11:00 o’clock and would

not re-open until a little before 4:00 o’clock, when the return train

passed. Only the hotel in front of the station remained open, its

bar and pool hall, and the telegraph office at the side of the

central plaza. The houses, the majority of them built after the

design of the banana companies1, had closed doors and the blinds

lowered. At places it was so hot that the citizens ate lunch on the

patio. Others settled in chairs in the shade of the almond trees

and had their siesta seated in full view of the road."

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