Text Analysis
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| Flashcards | 169 |
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| Language | Deutsch |
| Category | English |
| Level | University |
| Created / Updated | 02.07.2014 / 17.06.2022 |
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God for Harry, England and St George
- hendiatris
- "one through three"
- = my country
(three words representing a central idea)
Every Tom, Dick and Harry
- hendiatris
- "one through three"
- = everyone
(three words representing a central idea)
Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.
- three-part lists:
- Churchill
(a list of 3 items that doesn't qualify as a tricolon on the grounds of length or syntax (or lack thereof))
Ads for the women's stuff push the mystical, the evocative and the French.
- three-part list: 1. mystical, 2. evocative, 3. French
(a list of 3 items that doesn't qualify as a tricolon on the grounds of length or syntax (or lack thereof))
Black and white
- contrasting pair
(two things contrasted in a pithy, concise manner)
theory and practice
- contrasting pair
(two things contrasted in a pithy, concise manner)
content and skills
- contrasting pair
(two things contrasted in a pithy, concise manner)
In the 20th century, all the nightmare-novels of the future imagined books would be burned. In the 21st century, our dystopias imagine a world where books are forgotten.
- juxtaposition
(a contrast of ideas without the pithiness (Prägnanz) of a contrasting pair, nor the parallel structure of antithesis)
People don't just want mental snacks for ever; they also want meals
- juxtaposition
(a contrast of ideas without the pithiness (Prägnanz) of a contrasting pair, nor the parallel structure of antithesis)
