Syntax Quiz Flashcards
“Because the world is a place of silence, the sky at night when the birds have gone is a vast silent place.”
Repetition
“You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.”
Anaphora
If the oven is on, turn it off!
Inversion
‘I must be cruel, only to be kind’’
Paradox
When they arrive, let me know!
Inversion
“Like”
Expletive
“Young Goodman Brown caught hold of a tree, for support, being ready to sink down on the ground, faint and overburdened with the heavy sickness of his hear.”
Cumulative
“I wish I may; I wish I might.”
Anaphora
“Where there is smoke, there is fire,”
Parallelism
This is the beginning of the end.
Paradox
“So many places, so little time.”
Anaphora
“No pain, no gain,”
Parallelism
If I know one thing, it’s that I know nothing.
Paradox
I like everything about him: his smile, his laugh, his sense of humor.
Enumeration
“In for a penny, in for a pound,”
Parallelism
“A colonial Mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house,”
Enumeration
“He had a very pleasant journey, both in respect to the weather and the solitude of the track-for, during miles of the way, no carriages passed him, nor did any person overtake him till he reached the centre of the populous village.”
Cumulative
“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”
Repetition
“Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”
Enumeration
Save money by spending it.
Paradox
“He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind.”
Cumulative
“I would say”
Expletive
At the store, I bought salt, pepper, flour, sugar, baking soda, and cinnamon.
Enumeration
“Give me liberty or give me death.”
Anaphora
I went to the mall yesterday, bought shirts and bags, and ate at the newly-opened restaurant.
Cumulative
“Hatred was spreading everywhere, blood was being spilled everywhere, wars were breaking out everywhere.”
Repetition
“As I parted the grassy curtain, I found myself nose to nose with an angry hippo.”
Periodic
“If I may”
Expletive
In spite of the hail of bullets, the children smiled.
Periodic
“In the intervals of conversation, the deep and ominous tones of the bell, coming, as it were, out of the sky, told the hour without the trouble of counting the strokes.”
Periodic
“It takes one to know one”
Parallelism
“I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.”
Repetition
“I would say a haunted house”
Expletive
Never again will you do that.
Inversion
A fire, please call 911!
Inversion
In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued.
Periodic
