Syntax Flashcards
“So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania…”
Anaphora
“In every cry of every Man, In every infant’s cry of fear, in every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear”
Anaphora
“It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.”
Anaphora
Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
Anaphora
“Sweet Portia,
If you did know to whom I gave the ring, If you did know for whom I gave the ring, And would conceive for what I gave the ring”
Epiphora
“I’m a Pepper, he’s a Pepper, she’s a Pepper, we’re a Pepper. Wouldn’t you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper.”
Epiphora
“I’ve gotta be your damn conscience. I’m tired of being your conscience. I don’t enjoy being your conscious.”
Epiphora
A stylistic device in which a word or a phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses; sometimes called epistrophe.
Epiphora
A balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.
Parallelism
Their son loved playing chess, video games, and soccer.
Parallelism
“We’ve seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers.”
Parallelism
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Parallelism
A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions.
Asyndeton
We went to the park, played on the jungle gym, ran around, had a picnic… That was about it!
Asyndeton
Friends for now, forever.
Asyndeton
“Unbelievable sights Indescribable feelings Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling Through an endless diamond sky”
Asyndeton
The use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural.
Polysyndeton
“We have ships and men and money and stores.”
Polysyndeton
“Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly–mostly–let them have their whiteness.”
Polysyndeton
“With both of us hunting daily, there are still nights when game has to be swapped for lard or shoelaces or wool, still nights when we go to bed with our stomachs growling.”
Polysyndeton
Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.
Juxtaposition
These two situations are like apples and oranges.
Juxtapostion
You are making a mountain out of a molehill.
Juxtaposition
Next to Tybalt who was known as a fighter, Romeo was a lover.
Juxtaposition
Using two clauses with a reversal of meaning in order to create an inverse parallel. It is a two-part sentence or phrase where the concepts and parts of speech are mirrored.
Chiasmus
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
Chiasmus
“If black men have no rights in the eyes of the white men, of course, the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks.’
Chiasmus
“Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s a pleasure.”
Chiasmus
The main idea of a piece of discourse; the statement or proposition that a speaker or writer wishes to advance, illustrate, prove, or defend.
Thesis
Vaccinations
Because many children are unable to vaccinate due to illness, we must require that all healthy and able children be vaccinated in order to have herd immunity.
Thesis
Educational Resources for Low-Income Students
Schools should provide educational resources for low-income students during the summers so that they don’t forget what they’ve learned throughout the school year.
Thesis
School Uniforms
School uniforms may be an upfront cost for families, but they eradicate the visual differences in income between students and provide a more egalitarian atmosphere at school.
Thesis
A rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words, clauses, or sentences.
Antithesis
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
Antithesis
“Hope for the best; prepare for the worst.”
Antithesis
“Keep your mouth closed and your eyes open.”
Antithesis
