morphological and syntactic structures Flashcards
Anaphora
repetition of a word or group of words at the beginning of a sentence
Epiphora
repetition of a word or group of words at the end of a sentence
Apanalepsis
repetition of words in close succession or after other intervening words
Anadiplosis
repetition of the end of one clause at the beginning of another
Parallelismus
succession of clauses or sentences of the same structure
Chiasmus
reversal of structures in successive clauses
Inversion
reversal of normal word order
ellipsis
omission of sentence components
:Nothing so difficult as a beginning
Asyndeton
succession of words or phrases without conjoining words
Polysendeton
succession of words or phrases with conjoining words
Zeugma
application of one verb to more than one object in different sentences
hysteron proteron
reversal of the logical succession of events
Polyptoton
Repetition of a word in different inflected forms
Thinking - thinks
Figura etymological
Repetition of a root in different forms
Lit some lighter light
Aposiopesis
Abrupt cessation before the end of an utterance
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