diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index 0437b59d55d..ff83a1b8134 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -266,12 +266,9 @@ For cases where you need to choose from a very large number of possibilities,
 you can create a dictionary mapping case values to functions to call.  For
 example::
 
-   def function_1(...):
-       ...
-
    functions = {'a': function_1,
                 'b': function_2,
-                'c': self.method_1, ...}
+                'c': self.method_1}
 
    func = functions[value]
    func()
@@ -279,14 +276,14 @@ example::
 For calling methods on objects, you can simplify yet further by using the
 :func:`getattr` built-in to retrieve methods with a particular name::
 
-   def visit_a(self, ...):
-       ...
-   ...
+   class MyVisitor:
+       def visit_a(self):
+           ...
 
-   def dispatch(self, value):
-       method_name = 'visit_' + str(value)
-       method = getattr(self, method_name)
-       method()
+       def dispatch(self, value):
+           method_name = 'visit_' + str(value)
+           method = getattr(self, method_name)
+           method()
 
 It's suggested that you use a prefix for the method names, such as ``visit_`` in
 this example.  Without such a prefix, if values are coming from an untrusted
diff --git a/Doc/glossary.rst b/Doc/glossary.rst
index e71f6c0406a..f0f33d57737 100644
--- a/Doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/Doc/glossary.rst
@@ -282,12 +282,12 @@ Glossary
       The decorator syntax is merely syntactic sugar, the following two
       function definitions are semantically equivalent::
 
-         def f(...):
+         def f(arg):
              ...
          f = staticmethod(f)
 
          @staticmethod
-         def f(...):
+         def f(arg):
              ...
 
       The same concept exists for classes, but is less commonly used there.  See
diff --git a/Doc/library/abc.rst b/Doc/library/abc.rst
index 1a6ed474ff2..3b74622e7ff 100644
--- a/Doc/library/abc.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/abc.rst
@@ -186,15 +186,15 @@ The :mod:`abc` module also provides the following decorator:
 
       class C(ABC):
           @abstractmethod
-          def my_abstract_method(self, ...):
+          def my_abstract_method(self, arg1):
               ...
           @classmethod
           @abstractmethod
-          def my_abstract_classmethod(cls, ...):
+          def my_abstract_classmethod(cls, arg2):
               ...
           @staticmethod
           @abstractmethod
-          def my_abstract_staticmethod(...):
+          def my_abstract_staticmethod(arg3):
               ...
 
           @property
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ The :mod:`abc` module also supports the following legacy decorators:
       class C(ABC):
           @classmethod
           @abstractmethod
-          def my_abstract_classmethod(cls, ...):
+          def my_abstract_classmethod(cls, arg):
               ...
 
 
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ The :mod:`abc` module also supports the following legacy decorators:
       class C(ABC):
           @staticmethod
           @abstractmethod
-          def my_abstract_staticmethod(...):
+          def my_abstract_staticmethod(arg):
               ...
 
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 059a058d588..9c061bcd825 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
 
       class C:
           @classmethod
-          def f(cls, arg1, arg2, ...): ...
+          def f(cls, arg1, arg2): ...
 
    The ``@classmethod`` form is a function :term:`decorator` -- see
    :ref:`function` for details.