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Syntax Flashcards
College English study vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Asyrdeton | 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. |
Apposistion | Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. |
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. |
Anithesis | 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. |
Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses. |
Antimetabole | Repetition of words in a successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. |
Polysyndeton | |
Anadiplosis | Repeating the last word of one sentence (or clause) as the first word of the next. |
Epistrophe | The opposite of anaphora. |
Epanalensis | Using the same word or phrase at the beginning of a sentence and at the end. |
Chiasmus | Reverses grammatical elements. |
Epanprthosis | Or "correction" conveys a sense of immediacy. |