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Syntax
Question | Answer |
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Parallellism | a series of words, phrases and/or clauses in the same grammatical construction. |
Balenced | a compound sentence that has its independent clauses grammatically mirror each other. |
Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure; especially used to suggest with. |
Periodic | subject and verb found at the end of the sentence. |
Anastrophe | inversion of the natural or usual word order. |
Asyndeton | a series of phrases or clauses put together without the coordinating conjunctions. |
Ellipsis | deliberate omission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context; indicates economy of expression. |
Nominative Absolute | a phrase containing a noun modified by a present or past participle; indicates economy of expression. |
Parenthesis | insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence. |
Apposition | placing side by side two co-ordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. |
Anaphora | repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. |
Antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatically order. |
Polysyndeton | a series of words, phrases, or clauses each connected with a conjunction; indicated an air of solemnness, draws emphasis to the things connected; suggest a piling up of things, emotion, etc. |
Anadiplosis | repeating the last word of the sentence (or clause) as the first word of the next. |
Epistrophe | the opposite of anaphora. |
Epanalepsis | using the same word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence and at the end. |
Chiasmis | reverses grammatical elements. |
Epanorthosis | "correction" conveys a sense of immediacy. |