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18 Cards in this Set
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This sentence type makes a statement.
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A declarative sentence.
"The king is sick." |
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This sentence type gives a command.
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Imperative Sentence.
"Cure the king!" |
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This sentence type asks a question.
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Interrogative Sentence.
"Is the king sick?" |
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This sentence type provides emphasis or expresses strong emotion.
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Exclamatory Sentence.
"The king is dead!" |
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This sentence type makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending.
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Loose or Cumulative sentence.
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This sentence only makes sense when you get to the end.
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Periodic Sentence.
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These types of sentences have similar structures.
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A Balanced Sentence.
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Juxtaposition means-
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-To place something that is not normally compared with another next to each other.
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A grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence. "He loved swimming, running, and playing tennis."
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Parallel Structure.
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A device where words, sounds, and ideas are used more than once to enhance rhythm and to create emphasis.
". . .of the people, by the people, for the people. . ." |
Repetition.
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A question that requires no answer.
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A rhetorical question.
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A sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect.
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A rhetorical fragment.
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The repetition of the same word or group of words and the beginning of successive clauses.
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." (Winston Churchill) |
Anaphora
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A deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses.
"I came, I saw, I conquered." (Julius Caesar) |
Asyndeton.
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A sentence strategy in which the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first.
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." (John F. Kennedy) |
Chiasmus/Antimetabole
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The deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis to highlight quantity or mass of detail or to create a flowing, continuous sentence pattern.
"The meal was huge - My mother fixed okra and green beans and ham and apple pie and green pickled tomatoes and ambrosia salad and all manner of fine country food - but no matter how I tried, I could not consume it to her satisfaction." |
Polysyndeton
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The use of a verb that has 2 different meanings with objects that complement both meanings.
"He stole bother her car and her heart that fateful night." |
Zeugma
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Dialogue in which the endings and beginnings of each line echo each other, taking on a new maning with each new line, as in the following example from Hamlet:
Hamlet: Now mother, what's the matter? Queen: Hamlet, thou has thy father much offended. Hamlet: Mother, you have my father much offended. Queen: Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. Hamlet: Go, go, you question wicked tongue. |
Stichomythia
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