Style Analysis Terminology 26-50 Ap Comp Vocab

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hypotactic sentence

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marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them.

"I am tired because it is hot."

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paratactic sentence

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simply juxaposes clauses or sentences. I am tired: it is hot

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Natural order of sentences

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the subject comes before the verb and is often followed by an object

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split order of a sentence

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this often divides the verb into two parts with the subject coming in the middle.

In California oranges grow

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juxtaposition

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is a poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.

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parallel structure

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refers to a grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence.

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rhetorical question

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is a question which expects no answer

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sentence beginnings

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examine sentence beginnings

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apposition

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the placing in immediately succeedding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first.

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asyndeton

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a condensed for of expression in which words, phrases, or clauses customarily joined by conjunctions are presented in series without the conjunctions.

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

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polysyndeton

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choosing to have to many conjunctions

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ellipsis

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the omission of one or more words which, while essentila to the grammatical structure of the sentence of line, are easily supplied by the reader.

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repetition

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is a device in which words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once for the purpose of enhancing rhythm and creating emphasis

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repetition

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a device in which words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once for the purpose of enhancing rhythm and creating emphasis.

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epanalepsis

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one of the devices of repetition in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence

"Common sense is not so common"

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epistrophe

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one of the devices of repetition in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.

"For truth is one, and right is ever one."

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anaphora

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one of the devices of repetition is which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.

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inversion

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of sentence or word order.

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anastrophe

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inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence.

"nor fierce othello in so loud a strain
roar'd for the handkerchief that caus'd him pain."

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antimetabole

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the repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order.

"one should eat to live, not live to eat"

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chiasmus

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a type of rhetoical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.

"flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike."

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punctuation

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examine the punctuation which is often a clue to both meaning and effect

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rhetorical shifts

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look for turn words like but, yet, now and then

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parenthesis

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an explanatory remark thrown into the body of a statement and frequently separated from it by parentheses

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pace

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a function of not only rhythm, sound devices, but also of length of words, number of conjunctions used, and lenght of sentence.