English Terms 6 Flashcards
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Appositive/Apposition
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A noun or noun phrase that renames or describes another noun right beside it
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Phrase
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A group or words missing either or both a subject or a verb
“An intolerable hint at trouble in paradise”
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Inversion
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A reversal of position, order, or relationship especially in a sentence
“Intelligent she was not. In fact she veered in the opposite direction”
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Parallelism
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Repeated syntactical similarities in a sentence or multiple sentences
“the baby frets. The maid sulks.”
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Participle/Participle Phrase
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Verbs form that function as adjectives
“Mowing the lawn, I realized…is a civic responsibility”
