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| 5334001323 | Telegraphic | Shorter than 5 words | 0 | |
| 5334001324 | Short | Approx. 5 words | 1 | |
| 5334001325 | Medium | Approx. 18 words | 2 | |
| 5334001326 | Long | Long & involved 30+ words | 3 | |
| 5334001327 | Declarative | Makes a statement; assertive | 4 | |
| 5334001328 | Imperative | Gives a command; authoritative | 5 | |
| 5334001329 | Interrogative | Asks a question; questioning | 6 | |
| 5334001330 | Exclamatory | Makes an exclamation; emotional | 7 | |
| 5334001331 | Natural order | Constructing a sentence so the subject becomes before the predicate "Oranges grow in California." | 8 | |
| 5334001332 | Inverted order | Constructing a sentence so the predicate becomes before the subject; used to crest emphatic/ rhythmic effect) "in California grow oranges." | 9 | |
| 5334001333 | Split order | Divides predicate into two parts with the subject coming in the middle " in California oranges grow. " | 10 | |
| 5334001334 | Simple | 1 subject & 1 verb; 1 main, complete thought "The singer bowed to her adoring audience." | 11 | |
| 5334001335 | Compound | 2 independent clauses joined by a coordinate conjunction; 2+ main, complete thoughts " The singer bowed to the audience, but she sang no encores. " | 12 | |
| 5334001336 | Complex | 1 simple sentence and 1+ clauses; independent clause and 1+ subordinate clauses "After she boughed to the audience, the singer sang an encore." | 13 | |
| 5334001337 | Compound-complex | 2+ principal clauses & 1+ subordinate clause "The singer bowed while the audience applauded, but she sang no encores." | 14 | |
| 5334001338 | Loose | Makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending "We reached Denver that morning." | 15 | |
| 5334001339 | Periodic | Makes sense only when the end of the sentence is reached "That morning, we reached Denver." | 16 | |
| 5334001340 | Balanced | Phrases & clauses balance each other by virtue of likeness of structure, meaning, or length | 17 | |
| 5334001341 | Narrative perspective | POV; how the story is told | 18 | |
| 5334001342 | Narrator | Voice of story; not necessarily author | 19 | |
| 5334001343 | Intrusive narrator | Comments on story & influences reader | 20 | |
| 5334001344 | Mode of presentation | Way a writer narrates (show vs. tell) | 21 | |
| 5334001345 | Scenic presentation | Event is described in detail (show) | 22 | |
| 5334001346 | Panoramic presentation | Story is told as condensed series of events (tell) | 23 | |
| 5334001347 | Reported thought | Thoughts, memories, association; intimate access to character's mind | 24 | |
| 5334001348 | Stream of consciousness | Convey flow of thoughts & emotions | 25 | |
| 5472479513 | Syntax | Structure of sentences, their types, their uses, the connection and also smaller structures within sentences. | 26 | |
| 5472489816 | Juxtaposition | Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally an associated ideas, words, or phrases our place next to one another creating an effective surprise and wit "The apparition of these faces in the crowd;/petals on a wet, black bough." | 27 | |
| 5472495239 | Parallel structure (parallelism) | Grammatical/structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence; it involves an arrangement of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraph so the elements of equal importance are equally developed in similarly phrased Ex : "He was walking, running, and jumping for joy." | 28 | |
| 5472501750 | Repetition | The device in which words sounds and ideas are used more than once to enhance them and create emphasis | 29 | |
| 5472505127 | Rhetorical question | A question that expects no answer; used to draw a point | 30 | |
| 5472508629 | Rhetorical fragment | A sentence fragment use deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect "Something to consider." | 31 | |
| 5472512570 | Anaphora | Repetition of same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight in the landing-grounds." | 32 | |
| 5472516802 | Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses Ex "I came, I saw, I conquered" | 33 | |
| 5472524083 | Chiasmus/antimetabole | Sentence strategy in which the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." | 34 | |
| 5472528894 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis to highlight quantity or mass of detail or to create a flowing continue sentence pattern Ex. Continuously repeating "and" to tell a story | 35 | |
| 5472538951 | Stichomythia | Dialogue in which the endings and beginnings of each line echo each other talking on a new meaning with each line Ex: "Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. Mother,you have my father much offended." | 36 | |
| 5472549367 | Zeugma | Use of the verb that has two different meanings with objects that complement both meanings Ex: He stole both her car and her heart that fateful night. | 37 | |
| 5472558590 | (Punctuation) Ellipses | A trailing off; equally etc.; going off into a dreamlike state | 38 |
