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Grammar Assessment 8

Content covering chapter 8: Other Stylistic Variations

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Absolute phrase A subject-predicate construction without a tense-carrying verb. It is related to the sentence as a whole, providing a detail or point of focus: She sat quietly, "her hands folded in her lap."
Anaphora A figure of speech describing repetition at the beginning of successive sentences: "Mad" world, "Mad" kings, "Mad" composition!
Anastrophe A figure of speech describing a reversal of the normal order of a sentence: "The rest of the story you know."
Antithesis The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas: "I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
Asyndeton A figure of speech describing the omission of a conjunction: "I came, I saw, I conquered."
Ellipsis A clause in which a part has been left out but is understood: "When (you are) planning your essay." Can be indicated by a set of dots.
Figure of speech Stylistic variations, also called figurative language, including comparisons (metaphor, simile, analogy, personification) that help readers
Fragment A phrase or clause that is punctuated as a full sentence. Some are simply punctuation errors; others are used deliberately for special effects.
Isocolon A figure of speech describing the repetition of grammatical forms: government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Polysyndeton A figure of speech describing the addition of conjunctions in a series: I took exams in biology "and" psychology "and" history--all in one day.
Redundancy Unnecessary repetition.
Repetition A technique for strengthening the continuity of text with key words.
Style A writer's manner of expression, influenced by tone, word choice, figurative language, sentence length and complexity, and other sentence features.
Word-order variation The rearrangement of words in a sentence, which can change its meaning, emphasize different parts of the sentence, or create stylistic effects
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