"Appositive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tendency of the lines to form pairs is obvious enough when there is semantic or grammatical parallelism, but there is a general binary pattern throughout. Typically, the first unit is a simple sentence, the second almost any grammatical structure—an appositive, a prepositional phrase, a participle, the second element of a compound verb, a dependent clause. A simile—in grammatical terms, an adverbial phrase—sometimes constitutes the second element. These pairs are often balanced roughly by the presence of two, three, or four accents in ...
— Fragments Of Ancient Poetry • James MacPherson
... often called an Appositive. It identifies or explains by adding another name of ...
— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg |
