Key Terms (Literature) - Syntax/Grammar/Sentence Structure. Flashcards

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Collocation

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Two or more words that appear frequently as a set part of a phrase

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Asyndetic Listing

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Listing with commas

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Ellipsis

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Missing words, often used at the end of a sentence

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Syndetic Listing

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Commas and conjunctions when listing

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Foregrounding

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A change in the structure of the sentence to place emphasis on an opening statement element

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End-focus

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A changing in the structure of the sentence to place emphasis on the closing sentence element

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Phrase

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A group of words that have no finite verb

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Parallelism

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Comparative phrasing in text

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Tripling

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Rule of three

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Declarative Sentence

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Stating

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Exclamatory Sentence

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Surprise

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Interrogative Sentence

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Asking

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Imperative Sentence

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Ordering

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Simple/Minor Sentence

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Subject, verb and predicate

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Compound Sentence

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Two main clauses joined by a conjunction

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Complex Sentence

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Main/One or more subordinate clauses