Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Today's words

Could this new vocabulary be?

anastrophe \uh-NASS-truh-fee\ - inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect
Recognized immediately, I did, the speaking practice of a character short, green, pointy-eared and wise. Knew not, did I, the word for it.
anacoluthon \ˌa-nə-kə-ˈlü-ˌthän\ - syntactical inconsistency or incoherence within a sentence; especially :  a shift in an unfinished sentence from one syntactic construction to another (as in “you really ought—well, do it your own way”)
I also wasn't familiar - oh, you should probably just follow the link for the lowdown on this one. Watch out for its preferred plural.

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