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vocabulary

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