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Literature
Syntax
Term | Definition |
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Parallelism | A series of words, phrases and or clauses in the same grammatical construction. |
Balanced | 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 wit. |
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 conjunction. |
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 coordinating 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 grammatical 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, emotions, etc. |
Anadiplosis | Repeating the last word of one sentence 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. |
Chiasmus | Reverses grammatical elements |
Epanorthosis | "correction"- conveys a sense of immediacy. |