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10 Cards in this Set
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rhetorical fragment
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a fragment used for persuasive or creative effect, e.g. "WOW!"
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balanced sentence
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a sentence with two equally important clauses, e.g. "I went to the park, and later I went home to have dinner"
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zeugma
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use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one, e.g. "took his hat and his leave"
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inverted sentence
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predicate proceeds subject, e.g. "among the weeds, were a few wildflowers"
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chiasmus
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a sentence dominated by inverted parallelism, e.g. "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"
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complex sentence
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inequal clauses independent where the independent comes before the dependent
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compound-complex
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1 dependent clause and 2 or more independent clauses
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loose/cumulative sentence
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basic statement with a string of details, e.g. "bell rang, filling the air, startling pigeons"
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epistrophe
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repition of concluding phrases/clauses
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parallel structure
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same patterns of words and verb tenses
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