syntax

• Polysyndetic list

  A list containing 'and'
• Asyndetic list

  A list without an 'and'
• Plosive alliteration

  Repeating P's
• Anaphora


  Repitition of the same word or phrase at the BEGINNING of successive sentences
• Epiphora


  Repitition of the same word or phrase at the END of successive sentances
• Appositive clause


  A clause that follows a noun, the appositive clause adds information about the noun that proceeds it.
• Different types of syntax

  Sentance types

  Sentance length

  Positioning

  Clauses
• Inverted syntax


  A sentance where the verb comes before the subject.

  e.g 'in the forest ran the deer.'
• Chiasmus 


  A clause written, followed by similar clause in reverse.

  e.g. 'all for one and one for all.'
• Antimetabole 


  'i know what i like and i like what i know.'
• Epanalepsis


  The beginning of the sentance is repeated at the end of the sentance

  'the king is dead, long live the king!'
• Anadiplosis


  'our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.'
• Triadic 


  In threes
• Parenthesis 


  Additional information added by the writer using brackets, dashes, or commas.
• Hypophora 


  Raising a question and immediatly answering it
• Sensory Imagery 


  Sight, sound, taste, touch and smell
• Hyperbole


  Extra exageration
• Onomatopoeia 


  Soudn
• Analepsis


  Flashback
• Prolepsis


  Flashforward
• Analoygy


  A comparison between one thing and another
• Antithetical imagery


  Juxtaposing imagery
• Epizuexis


  Quick paced repitition
• litotes?


  understatement to emphasize a point.
• synecdoche?


  a reduction into a small part of itself.
• Analogy?


  explaining something in terms of something else, for example: 'life is like a box of chocolates'
• allusion?


  referring to something indirectly or metaphorically
• what is this an example of: 'she had a golden ticket'?

  An allusion - to Charlie and the chocolate factory.
• incrementum?


  when the final term in a list makes the climactic point