english lit terms - organization (SCOUT)

Spatial Organization	Things organized by their relation to other things. The relation can be by size, number, repetition, or placement.
Sequential Organization	Determining what is first, or last and why, why one thing follows another.
Transitions in writing, art, or film	words and phrases or actions that provide a connection between ideas, sentences, and paragraphs.
Syntax	The way words and phrases are arranged to make a sentence or meaning.
Anadiplosis	Anadiplosis is a form of repetition in which the last word of one clause or sentence is repeated as the first word of the following clause or sentence.
Epistrophe	Epistrophe is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences
Epizeuxis	the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession, typically within the same sentence, for vehemence or emphasis.
Anaphora	a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis.
Paradox	a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
Parallel Construction	a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure
Ellipsis	a series of dots (typically three, such as "…") that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning a similar strategy can be seen in aposiopesis
Periodic Sentence	a stylistic device employed at the sentence level, described as one that is not complete grammatically or semantically before the final clause or phrase
Loose sentence	When the most important part of the meaning of the sentence is at the beginning of the sentence.
Conjunction	A part of speech that connects, words, phrases, or clauses to create the syntactical effect the author desires.
Asyndeton	a literary scheme in which one or several conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses, phrases, or words.
Anachronism	a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of persons, events, objects, or customs from different periods of time. The most common type of anachronism is an object misplaced in time, but it may be a verbal expression, a technology, a philosophical idea, a musical style, a material, a plant or animal, a custom, or anything else associated with a particular period in time that is placed outside its proper temporal domain.
Syllogism	A syllogism is a systematic representation of a single logical inference. It has three parts: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.
Juxtaposition	the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect
Compound Sentence	a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.
Complex Sentence	a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.