Sentence Types
Sentence Types continued
Literary Terms
Lit. Terms continued
100
" The King rises."
Simple
100
I took the train to work today.
Simple
100
" To be or not to be that is the question... to die, to sleep - to sleep..."
Parallelism
100
" He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac."
Asyndeton
200
Jennifer calls Chris whenever she feels sad and he cheers her up.
Compound-Complex
200
When I read a novel
Dependent clause
200
“That night I sat on Tyan-yu’s bed and waited for him to touch me. But he didn’t. I was relieved.”
Syntax
200
" Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything overdone is from the purpose of playing..."
Asyndeton
300
"She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere you go to bed."
Complex Sentence
300
After I handed in my paper, I realized I forgot to put the date.
Complex Sentence
300
" Hamlet: From top to toe? Marcellus and Bernardo: My Lord, from head to foot"
Syntax
300
" Good we must love, and must hate ill, for ill is ill, and good good still..."
Parallelism
400
" The Queen, your mother, in most great affliction of spirit hath sent me to you. "
Periodic
400
" Let the galled jade... "
Dependent clause
400
" And still more, later flowers for the bees until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cell."
Antecedent
500
" Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers - if the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me - with two Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of players, sir?
Periodic
500
" Marcellus: Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. Bernardo: Looks it not the King? Mark it, Horatio."
Antecedent
500
" I warrant your honor."
Independent Clause