Figures of Speech
Sentences
Mix
Conditionals
100

Part is used to designate the  whole or  the whole to designate a part.

Synecdoche

100

Consists of one independent clause.

Simple sentence

100

Anticlimax

A sudden  descent from higher to lower. It is chiefly used  for the purpose of satire or ridicule.

Example: He lost his family, his car and his cell phone.

100

A conditional that expresses something that is considered to be a universal truth or when one action always follows another.

Zero conditional

200

Literally, a change of name, an  object is designated to be the name of  something else which is generally associated  with it.

Metonymy

200

Mary likes tea.

Simple sentence

200

Known secret

Oxymoron


200

First conditional

if + present tense | will (may/might/can/could/should) + infinitive 


  • We could go to Paris if we save enough money. (“Could” indicates that the result is possible.)
300

An affirmative is conveyed by negation  of the opposite.

Litotes

There isn't anything I won't eat when I'm hungry.

300

Two (or more) independent clauses joined by a conjunction or semi-colon.

Compound sentence

300

Good and evil

Antithesis

300

A conditional that can either refer to future hypotheticals that are unlikely to be true or present situations that are untrue or impossible.

  • If I were rich, I would travel the world.

if + past subjunctive | would/might/could + infinitive (simple or continuous)

*if + simple past | would/might/could + infinitive (simple or continuous)

400

Persuade you, I shall.

Anastrophe

400

Consists of at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

Compound-complex sentence

400

He left in a hurry after he got a phone call.

Complex sentence

400

A conditional that expresses an unreal situation in the past, with reference to the hypothetical outcome that would result also in the past.

  • If I had known how you were going to react, I would have kept my mouth shut.

if + past perfect subjunctive | would (could/might) + perfect infinitive

*if + past perfect | would (could/might) + perfect infinitive

500

Oh nature, thou art my goddess.

Apostrophe

500

We missed our plane because we were late.

Complex sentence

500

Give an example of compound-complex

Example: 

He left in a hurry after he got a phone call but he came back five minutes later.

500

Give an example of Zero conditional

if (or when) + present tense | present tense

if (or when) + past tense | past tense