Subject Terminology Flashcards
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Simple sentence
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One independent clause
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Compound sentence
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Two or more independent clauses, joined by conjunction
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Complex sentence
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One independent clause and at least one dependent clause
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Compound-complex sentence
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Multiple independent values and at least one dependant clause
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Minor sentence
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Incomplete sentence fragment which sometimes omits the verb.
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4 different sentence moods
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- Declarative (statement)
- Interrogative (question)
- Imperative (command)
- Exclamatory (exclamation)
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Syndetic
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- Two+ elements linked by single conjunction
- EG : “Fish, chips, and mushy peas.”
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Asyndetic
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- Pair or list w no conjunction.
- EG: “Fish, chips, peas”
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Polysyndetic
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- List with conjunction between every element.
- EG: Fish and chips and peas.”
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Anaphora
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- Repetition of word or phrase at beginning of phrase//sentence.
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Epistrophe
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- Repetition of word//phrase at end of phrase//sentence.
- EG: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
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Anadiplosis
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- Repetition of word/s located at end of sentence at beginning of following sentence.
- EG: The general who became the slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor.
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Epizeuxis
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- Rep of word//phrase in immediate succession, w no intervening words.
- EG: “Words,words,words”
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Diacope
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- Rep of word//phrase with additional word/s inserted into second time.
- I was scared, god-awfully scared.”
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Syntactic parallelism
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- Phrases using same grammatical structure
- EG: “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”
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Chiasmus
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- Rhetorical device which connects repeated in reverse order.
- EG: “Who dotes, yet doubts-suspects, yet soundly love!”
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Antimetabole
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- Rhetorical device in which the exact words repeated in reverse order
- EG: “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
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Anthropomorphism
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- Inanimate object or animal portrayed as human
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