Sentence Types
Word Organization
Give an Example
Phrases/Sentence Organization
Miscellaneous
100
A sentence that makes sense before the end of the sentence is reached.
What is a loose sentence?
100
Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order
What is inversion?
100
Must be the attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea
Give an example of personification
100
Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence
What is alliteration?
100
Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer
What is a rhetorical question?
200
A sentence that needs to be read through completely to make sense.
What is a periodic sentence?
200
When words are presented and then restated in reverse order
What is chiasmus?
200
Sentence must compare to things without using "like" or "as"
Give an example of a metaphor
200
When ideas are arranged in order of importance
What is climax?
200
Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art
What is allusion?
300
Sentence used to command or enjoin
What is an imperative sentence?
300
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences
What is juxtaposition and what is it used for?
300
Must incluse the similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Give an example of parallelism
300
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
What is anaphora?
300
To address someone who is not present; to address a personified person or idea
What is apostrophe?
400
Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on
What is a cumulative sentence?
400
Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, of words
What is asyndeton?
400
Sentence of phrase must be the paradoxical juxtaposition or words that seem to contradict one another
Give an example of oxymoron.
400
Combine multiple ideas into one whole thesis
What does is mean to synthesize?
400
Figure of speech that uses a part of represent a whole
What is synedoche?
500
Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action
What is a hortative sentence?
500
Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings
What is zeugma?
500
Must be the opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction
Give an example of antithesis
500
Repetition of words in reverse order
What is antimetabole?
500
Inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics
What is anthropomorphism?
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