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14 Cards in this Set
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anadiplosis |
repetition of a prominent word, usually the last in one group of words and the first in the following group of words |
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anaphora |
the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or verses |
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antecendent |
the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun |
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asyndeton |
omission of the conjunctions that ordinary join coordinate words or clauses |
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caesura |
a pause in the middle of a line of poetry, indicated by a comma, dash, or semicolon |
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chiasmus |
reversal of the order of terms in the two parallel clauses |
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clause |
a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb |
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ellipsis |
the omission of a word or words which may grammatically necessary, but can be deduced from context |
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inversion |
a change in the normal word or |
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loose sentence |
a type of sentence in which the main idea, comes first followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses |
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isocolon |
a type of parallel structure that occurs when the parallel element are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length (number of words or even number of syllables) |
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parallelism |
grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity |
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periodic sentence |
presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end |
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Polysyndeton |
repetition of conjunctions in close succession |
