Syntax -- Schemes of Addition Flashcards
Catalog
A series of items one after the other designed to make a point more forcibly. Also known as enumeration.
Catalog Example
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.
Parenthesis
Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow the rhetorical term for interrupted sentence which is a grammatical term.
Parenthesis Example
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.
Synonymia
The use of several synonyms together to amplify or explain a subject or term.
Synonymia Example
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things