Syntax Quiz Flashcards

1
Q

“Because the world is a place of silence, the sky at night when the birds have gone is a vast silent place.”

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Repetition

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2
Q

“You’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t.”

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Anaphora

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3
Q

If the oven is on, turn it off!

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Inversion

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4
Q

‘I must be cruel, only to be kind’’

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Paradox

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5
Q

When they arrive, let me know!

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Inversion

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6
Q

“Like”

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Expletive

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7
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“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.”

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Cumulative

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8
Q

“I wish I may; I wish I might.”

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Anaphora

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9
Q

“Where there is smoke, there is fire,”

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Parallelism

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10
Q

This is the beginning of the end.

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Paradox

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11
Q

“So many places, so little time.”

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Anaphora

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12
Q

“No pain, no gain,”

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Parallelism

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13
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If I know one thing, it’s that I know nothing.

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Paradox

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14
Q

I like everything about him: his smile, his laugh, his sense of humor.

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Enumeration

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15
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“In for a penny, in for a pound,”

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Parallelism

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16
Q

“A colonial Mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house,”

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Enumeration

17
Q

“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.”

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Cumulative

18
Q

“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.”

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Repetition

19
Q

“Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”

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Enumeration

20
Q

Save money by spending it.

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Paradox

21
Q

“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.”

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Cumulative

22
Q

“I would say”

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Expletive

23
Q

At the store, I bought salt, pepper, flour, sugar, baking soda, and cinnamon.

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Enumeration

24
Q

“Give me liberty or give me death.”

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Anaphora

25
Q

I went to the mall yesterday, bought shirts and bags, and ate at the newly-opened restaurant.

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Cumulative

26
Q

“Hatred was spreading everywhere, blood was being spilled everywhere, wars were breaking out everywhere.”

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Repetition

27
Q

“As I parted the grassy curtain, I found myself nose to nose with an angry hippo.”

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Periodic

28
Q

“If I may”

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Expletive

29
Q

In spite of the hail of bullets, the children smiled.

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Periodic

30
Q

“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.”

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Periodic

31
Q

“It takes one to know one”

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Parallelism

32
Q

“I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.”

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Repetition

33
Q

“I would say a haunted house”

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Expletive

34
Q

Never again will you do that.

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Inversion

35
Q

A fire, please call 911!

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Inversion

36
Q

In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued.

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Periodic