C2
Marked Syntax and Rhetorical Structures
Natatanging Palaugnayan at Retorika
About this concept
Non-standard word orders and rhetorical devices for emphasis: topicalization, fronting, clefting, and poetic inversions used in oratory, literature, and persuasive speech.
In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~30 cards at level C2.
Examples
Ikaw, ikaw ang dahilan ng lahat ng ito!You, you are the reason for all of this! (emphatic)
Sa iyong mga mata ko natagpuan ang katotohanan.In your eyes I found the truth. (literary fronting)
Hindi ang pera kundi ang pagmamahal ang mahalaga.Not money but love is what is important. (contrastive)
Prerequisite
Complex Clause EmbeddingC1More C2 concepts
Literary and Archaic TagalogPampanitikan at Sinaunang TagalogRegional Tagalog VariationsMga Pagkakaiba-iba ng Tagalog sa RehiyonColloquial Register and SlangKolokyal na Rehistro at Salitang BalbalBaybayin Script and Pre-Colonial LanguageBaybayin at Wikang Pre-KolonyalPhilippine English Influence and Code-SwitchingImpluwensya ng Philippine English at Code-Switching
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