Phrases & Clauses
True or False
A phrase contains a subject and predicate.
What is false?
Identify the following as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
After she left work, the woman stopped at the store before she went home.
What is complex?
Identify the following as loose or periodic.
"You should have seen how wisely I proceeded - with what caution - with what foresight - with what dissimulation!" ~ "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Poe
What is loose?
Identify the device.
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” ~ MLK Jr.
What is antithesis?
True or False
Diction and syntax are the same thing.
What is false?
diction = word choice
syntax - word order, structure, patterns, etc.
This type of phrase is a noun that renames another noun or pronoun.
What is an appositive?
Identify the following sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
You will need to study harder, or you will need to drop the class.
What is a compound sentence?
Identify the following as centered or convoluted.
Jackals, although they usually eat what other animals have caught, can hunt.
What is convoluted?
Identify the device (It's not freight train.).
We went to the park, played on the jungle gym, ran around, had a picnic … That was about it!
What is asyndeton?
This famous fictional character speaks using inverted or split word order.
Who is Yoda?
Identify the italicized phrase in the following sentence.
After I picked up my sister from work, we went through Dunkin and bought iced mocha lattes for a quick snack before heading home.
What is a prepositional phrase?
Identify the following as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Max likes brussel sprouts.
What is simple?
Identify the following as centered or convoluted.
"One morning, the hobbits woke to find the large field, south of Bilbo's front door, covered with ropes and poles for tents and pavilions." ~ The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkein
What is centered?
Identify the device.
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.” (the U.S. Postal Service Creed)
What is polysyndeton?
This type of punctuation can take the place of other punctuation marks such as a comma and colon.
What is the dash?
What is the italicized phrase in this sentence?
Running through the forest, the fawn outran the hungry bear.
What is a participal or participial phrase?
Identify the following sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
He went to the market because he needed more milk, and then he made pudding.
What is compound-complex?
Identify the following as loose or periodic.
"Dazed and suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors." ~ The Call of the Wild by Jack London
What is periodic?
Identify one type of repetition used in the following:
The award for best hair went to Josh. The award for most likely to succeed went to Josh. And the award for most charming? It went to Josh!
What is epistrophe (to Josh) or anaphora (The award)?
This type of punctuation is used to omit text often to shorten a passage.
What is ellipsis?
This occurs when a phrase is in the wrong location in a sentence resulting in unclear writing.
What is a misplaced modifier?
Identify the following as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
I went to the bathroom before I sat down, but my husband visited the facilities after he watched the movie.
What is compound-complex?
Identify the following as loose or periodic.
"My father started chipping away at a plaster wall in the living room of our house in Bybanks shortly after my mother left us one April morning." ~ Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
What is loose?
Identify the type of repetition used in the following:
I’m sick and tired of you letting me down. I’m sick and tired of you making me mad. And I’m sick and tired of you doing such silly things!
What is anaphora?
True or False
A sentence is a thing of movable parts, an endlessly adaptable structure that is completely subject to the writer’s will, shrinking or expanding to fit the sound and sense he or she chooses to give it.
What is TRUE?