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Sentence Patterns & Clauses
Balanced Construction
Repetition
Word Order
Sentence Types
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This type of clause is a group of words that contains both a subject and a verb and that can stand by itself as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
100
This is the placement of equal ideas in words, phrases, or clauses of similar types.
What is parallel structure?
100
This is the repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. It is used for emphasis and rhythm.
What is epistrophe?
100
This type of rhetorical technique inverts the natural word order.
What is anastrophe?
100
This type of sentence consists of a single independent clause.
What is a simple sentence?
200
This is a group of words containing both a subject and a verb that cannot stand by itself as a complete sentence.
What is a dependent (subordinate) clause?
200
This is a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
What is juxtaposition?
200
This is the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. It is used for emphasis and rhythm.
What is anaphora?
200
This is the insertion of a word, phrase, or sentence in the middle of another sentence that interrupts the normal flow and is not essential to the meaning of the sentence. These elements can be set off by commas, dashes, or parentheses.
What is parenthesis?
200
This type of sentence consists of two or more independent clauses. They can be joined by a comma, a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet), or by a semicolon. It contains no subordinate (dependent) clauses.
What is a compound sentence?
300
This type of sentence pattern is characterized by parallel clauses that have the same or similar grammatical structure and approximate same length.
What is a balanced sentence?
300
This is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.
What is antithesis?
300
This is a style that deliberately uses many conjunctions.
What is polysyndeton?
300
This is the side-by-side placement of two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first.
What is apposition (appositive)?
300
This type of sentence consists of one independent clause and one or more subordinate (dependent) clauses.
What is a complex sentence?
400
This type of sentence pattern is where the main subject and verb come after introductory subordinate (dependent) clauses and phrases.
What is a periodic sentence?
400
"You can't teach an old dog new tricks" is an example of what?
What is juxtaposition?
400
This is a style that deliberately omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses.
What is asyndeton?
400
The Superbowl, the biggest football game of the year, is held in February. This is an example of what?
What is an appositive?
400
This type of sentence consists of two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate (dependent) clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
This type of sentence pattern begins with the subject and then the predicate along with their modifiers.
What is a loose sentence?
500
"People exercise because they want to look healthy, because they need to increase stamina, or because they hope to live longer." This is an example of what?
What is parallelism?
500
"So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California. But not only that, let freedom, ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring." This is an example of what?
What is anaphora?
500
Unmarried Hopi girls often wore their hair in twisted buns, the design of squash blossoms. This is an example of what?
What is an appositive?
500
Loading everything on a boat, the Lozi move from flooding land to higher ground every year.
What is a simple sentence?