Syntactic Patternings

Question 1

Listing

Answer 1

a way of presenting a large amount of information. It can be several parallel sentences, one sentence separated by commas or semicolons, dot-pointed and more.
E.g. I need to buy wrapping paper, sticky tape and ribbons.

Question 2

Parallelism

Answer 2

a figure of speech which two or more elements of a sentence (or
series of sentences) have the same grammatical structure.
E.g. “That they are loved. They are respected. That they are safe.” - Daniel Andrews speaking in defense of local drag queens, 2023.

Question 3

Antithesis

Answer 3

a figure of speech that states strongly contrasting idea placed in juxtaposition. They contain near-parallel or parallel compound sentences with the two independent clauses separated by a comma or a semicolon, in most cases.
E.g. “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” - Charles Dickens.

Question 4

What is the acronym?

Answer 4

PAL