2834135681 | declarative sentence | statement | 0 | |
2834136186 | imperative | command | 1 | |
2834136187 | interrogative | question | 2 | |
2834136726 | exclamatory | expressive | 3 | |
2834137335 | simple sentence | 1 independent clause | 4 | |
2834137890 | complex | independent +subordinate clause | 5 | |
2834140158 | compound-complex sentence | two or more independent and one or more subordinate | 6 | |
2834141989 | loose/cumulative sentence | main clause at the beginning(main clause +subordinate) | 7 | |
2834154953 | periodic sentence | subordinate then main clause ex: as we started to arrange the pieces on the board, I was startled by the sight of his crippled right hand. | 8 | |
2834163053 | convoluted sentence | periodic sentence, subordinate inside the main clause. ie: Now demons, whatever else they may be, are full of interest. | 9 | |
2834171537 | balanced sentence | visit either you like; they're both mad constructions with the same form/ length, divided equally in half | 10 | |
2834177814 | antithesis | Cattiness is a cold war staged by women; macho is a hotter war fought by men. type of balance, direct opposites | 11 | |
2834181036 | parallelism | same grammatical relationship | 12 | |
2834186267 | inverted word order | him the future invites | 13 | |
2834187069 | natural word order | subject-verb-object | 14 | |
2834189528 | rhetorical question | not really seeking an answer | 15 | |
2834190010 | repetition | repetition repetition repetition | 16 | |
2834190498 | anaphora | I didn't like the swimming pool, I didn't like swimming and I didn't like the swimming instructor. | 17 | |
2834193088 | antistrophe | he eats american, talks american, he will be american or nothing | 18 | |
2834195111 | anadiplosis | to philosophizee is to understand, to understand is to explain oneself, to explain is to relate same term beginning and end | 19 | |
2834208826 | epanalepsis | problem gives rise to problem same word beginning and end | 20 | |
2834233276 | polysndeton | it is the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread, whenever it blows | 21 | |
2834274062 | asyndeton | his care, his food, his shelter his education-all of these were by products of the parents' position | 22 | |
2834279642 | telegraphic | sentence shorter than 5 words | 23 | |
2834280497 | medium length | about 18 words | 24 | |
2834281128 | long length | 30 or more | 25 | |
2834282657 | chiasmus/antimetabole | books are among the best things, well used; abused the worst key terms reversed | 26 | |
2834285319 | zeugma | she left his apartment with arnished virtue and a new mink pun involving a verb | 27 |
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