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title: "Syntactic SDs"
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# Syntactic SDs

> At the last lecture, we discussed about syntactic SDs. We studied distinguish them in the sentences....

At the last lecture, we discussed about syntactic SDs. We studied distinguish them in the sentences. They are : Inversion, Litotes, Antithesis , Climax ,Anticlimax, Break-in-the-Narrative , Question -in-the-Narrative , Asyndeton, Polysyndeton and Repetition. Inversion is a direct order of words in a sentence, it makes one of them more important. F. e: ***Scarcely*** had I arrived home when there was a knock on the door. Litotes is when two negations are joined to give a positive evaluation. F. e: It was a strange clicking noise in the distance, ***not unlike*** castanets. Antithesis is a when two points of sharp contrast set one against the other, generally in parallel construction. F. e: ***You're easy on the eyes, Hard on the heart***. Anticlimax is a sudden transformation from an important idea to a comparatively less significant or a trivial observation or expression. F. e: "Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends." Climax is sentence arrangement, in which each following word is logically more important and emotionally stronger. F. e: He is uncomplicated, upright, strict, austere and inspirational. Break-in-the-Narrative is a break of the sentence for a rhetorical effect. F .e: Arman will show you Madina 's room, if you like. ***And - and- you'd better look the bedroom door"***. Question -in-the-Narrative is a question by one and the same person asked and answered in the narrative. F. e: And what they played was warm, sunny, yet there was just a faint chill - a something, what was it?

- not sadness - no, a something that made you want to sing. Asyndeton is not use conjunctions. Opposite to polysyndeton . F. e: A huge lump of glass lay balanced on the top of a cupboard; it could fall at any moment. Polysyndeton is the excessive use conjunctions. F. e: I thanked her, not knowing exactly for what, ***and*** put down the receiver, tacking the shock physically in lightheadedness ***and*** a constricted throat. Repetition is the reoccurrence of sentence units. It used to show the state of mind of a person under the stress of strong emotion, which always manifests itself through intonation. F. e: "***Don't look down,***" the blood whispered in his temples, don't look down for God's sake, ***don't*** ***look down***".

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