Phrase · 🖋️ Rhetoric & literary style
Assim termina a história: como começou, em silêncio.
And so the story ends: as it began, in silence.
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Why every word is where it is
Assimadverbso, thustermina1verbendsterminar · present · 3rd sing.adeterminertheo · fem. · sing. · definitehistória1nounstoryfem. · sing.:comoconjunctionas, likecomeçouverbit begancomeçar · past · 3rd sing.,emprepositionin, onsilêncionounsilencemasc. · sing..
- Assim → termina: adverb first → verb before subject
- história → termina: subject after the verb
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Fronted «assim» puts the verb before the subject: a closing cadence. Stylistic inversion & emphatic word order →