Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Compound Sentence
The fame of the candle stands still in the air.
Verb
Then we knew what we must do.
Rhyme
And we looked straight into the eyes of the Council, but their eyes were as cold as blue glass buttons.
Simile
In the Home of the Students we arose when the big bell rang in the tower and we went to our beds where it rang again.
Sound
The sleeping halls were white and clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds.
Simple Sentence
But we cannot change our bones nor our body.
Conjunction
They sit in the sun in summer and they sit by the fire in winter.
Alliteration
They are a tall, strong youth and their eyes are like fireflies, for there is laughter in their eyes.
Metaphor
On the ground there were long thin tracks of iron, but it was not iron; it felt smooth and cold as glass.
Touch
When the bell rings, we all arise from our beds.
Complex Sentence
So we fought against this curse.
Preposition
The shadow on the sundial marks off a half our while we dress and eat out breakfast in the dining hall, where there are five long tables with twenty clay plates and twenty clay cups on each table.
Assonance
The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushed all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it.
Simile
There is green mould in the grooves of the letters and yellow streaks on the marble, which come from more years than men could count.
Sight
We opened our eyes, lying on our stomach on the brick floor of a cell.
Simple Sentence
Then we knew suddenly that we were lying on a soft earth and that we had stopped.
Adverb
We had broken a law, for we had not paid heed to the words of our Teachers.
Consonance
Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape.
They leapt to their feet, they ran from the table, and they stood pressed against the wall, huddled together, seeking the warmth of one another's bodies to give them courage.
Touch
The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever, and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.
Compound / Complex Sentence
And the Golden One stepped back, and stood looking upon their hands in wonder.
Noun
Their hair was golden as the sun; their hair flew in the wind, shining and wild, as if it defied men to restrain it.
Assonance
Only the iron tracks glowed through it, straight and white, calling us to follow.
Personification
When the sun sank beyond the mountains, the Golden One fell asleep on the floor, amidst jewels, and bottles of crystal, and flowers of silk.
Sight