Syntax -- Schemes of Addition Flashcards

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Catalog

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A series of items one after the other designed to make a point more forcibly. Also known as enumeration.

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Catalog Example

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We formed in 1979, June, In Washington DC, the moral majority with a handful of people which has grown now to over a hundred thousand priests rabbis and pastors blacks and whites young and old and all kinds.

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Parenthesis

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Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow the rhetorical term for interrupted sentence which is a grammatical term.

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Parenthesis Example

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Worship of success with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success is our national disease.
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

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Synonymia

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The use of several synonyms together to amplify or explain a subject or term.

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Synonymia Example

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You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things

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