click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Syntax
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
---|---|
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 |
Asydeton | 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 beginnings 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; indicates an air or solemness, draws emphasis to the things connected; suggest a piling up of things, emotions.etc. |
Anadiplosis | repeating the last word of one sentence (or clause) as the first word of the next |
Epistrophe | repeating the same word or phrase at the ends of clauses or sentences |
Epanalepsis | using the same word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence and at the end |
Chiasmus | reverses grammatical elements |
Epanorthosis | or correction--conveys a sense of immediacy |