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coordinating phrase

Phrase
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A construction linking grammatically equal elements with conjunctions like “and” or “but”

Detailed Definition
Coordinating phrases build accumulation, contrast, or balance through parataxis; they create rhythmic momentum and democratic emphasis, refusing hierarchy among linked ideas—common in lists, catalogs, or Whitmanesque expansiveness.
Example
Example in poetry:
The wind sang, and the trees answered; the poet wrote, and the world listened; the child laughed, and the elders smiled; the fire burned, and the shadows danced.
Additional Notes
Coordinating phrases link equal elements with “and,” “but,” “or”: “He wrote, he wept, he burned the page”; they create rhythm and cumulative force in free verse and catalog poetry (e.g., Whitman); avoid listing without emotional progression; use to build momentum or contrast; related to paratactic phrase and anaphoric phrase; powerful in manifestos, elegies, and lists of loss.
Also Known As
coordinate construction coordinating clause parallel phrase
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