Syntax terms

Asyndeton

using no conjunctions and departing terms if the series with commas. Takes more emphasis as a whole than it does in a conventional patten. The stress of the item is lighter and passage move quicker.

Pun

a literary device that is also known as a play on words. Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings. Their play on works also relies on a word or phrase having more than one meaning. Puns are generally intended to be humorous, but they often have a serious purpose as well as in literary works.

Zeugma

A special kind of pun including a translation verb or preposition. It occurs when the verb or preposition has two different meanings with objects that complement both meanings. Literal and figurative

Existentialism

View humans as the type whose existence precedes essence. to determine one’s purpose in life can create discomfort, anxiety or loneliness. We are free but responsible for what people make of themselves. Freedom and responsibility are the sources of their anxiety

Naturalism

Application of principals of scientific determinism to literature. The naturalistic view of human beings is this of animals in the natural world, responding to environmental forces and internal stress that drives, none of which they can understand or control.

A balanced sentence

A sentence in which two or more words or constructions have essentially the same form and length and have similar functions

Requires that the sentence divided into roughly equal halves on either side of a central pause— not necessarily always two independent clauses.

Parallelism

Two or more words, phrases or clauses have the same grammatical form and an identical grammatical relationship to the same thing

Repetition

A device where words, sounds and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and to create emphasis

Anaphora

The repetition of the same term(s) beginning successive clauses

Epistrophe

The repetition of the same term at the ending of successive clauses.

Realism

Writers in the realist traction eschew the tradition patters of the novel because life, they assert, lacks symmetry and plot; fiction truthfully reflecting life should, therefore avoid symmetry and plot. It should concern itself with ethical issues with a view to presenting these ideas accurately

Chiasmus

Similar to antimotabole but with broader significants, a pattern which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reverse- mirror image

Regionalism

Fiolelity to a particular geographical area; the representation of its habits, speech, manners, history, folklore, or beliefs. A test of regionalism is that the action and personages of such a wem cannot be moved, without major loss or distortion, to any other geographical setting

Polysyndeton

placing a conjugate after every term except the last. The emphasis falls more evenly upon each member of the list.

Juxtaposition

A poetic and a rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words or phrases are placed next to one another, often creating an effect of surprise or wit

Rhetorical Question

a question that requires no answer. It is used to draw attention to a point and it’s generally stronger than a direct statement

Epanalepsis

when the same word appears at the beginning and at the end

History is ours and people make history

Antimetabole

The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order

If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with

Reausm

Writers in the reaust tradition eschew the tradition patterns of the novel because life, they assert, lacks symmetry and plot; fiction truthfully reflecting life should therefore avoid symmetry and plot. It should concern itself with ethical with a view to presenting these ideas accurately.