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1
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Simple

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One main clause

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Compound

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More than one main clause

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Minor sentence

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Verbless sentence

Tense or dramatic mood

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Statement

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Tells you something a fact

Calm impersonal tone

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Rhetorical question

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Emphasis 
Involve the reader more 
Makes reader question their own views 
Challenge the reader 
Shows uncertainty
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Exclamation

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Tone of strong emotion

Emotive or dramatic tone

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Long

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Old fashioned language
Build up tense
Build up a detailed description
Of a setting or character

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Short sentences

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Great impact
Slow down the action
Create suspense
Easy language?

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Colon

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Introduce a quotation, list, explanation, expansion
Climax created?
Anti climax?

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Semi colon

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Used instead of a conjunction
Separate phrases in a list
Creates a pause
Balance a sentence

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Inverted commas

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Indicate a title 
Spoken words 
Quotations 
Foreign words 
Highlight a word in a sentence (make it stand out)
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Single dash

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Introduce extra information, explanation, expansion

Shows a sentence breaking off

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Series of dashes

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Convey outpouring of ideas/ emotions

Informal

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Commas

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Separate phrases and clauses

Indicate list?

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Parenthesis (parenthetical clause)

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Extra information

Nonessential information

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Command

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Orders you to do something
Persuasive
Instruction

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Ellipsis

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Break in speech or thought

Suggests doubt

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Listing

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Highlight the number or range of something

Shows climax

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List of verbs

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Sense of action

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Repetition

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Emphasis a point
Stress a particular word or phrase
Religion of “I” is egotistical

21
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Climax

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Builds tension
Sense of progress
Ends at the most powerful word

22
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Anti-climax

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Building towards something that doesn’t happen in the end
Surprise
Undercuts the readers expectation

23
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Contrast

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Highlight differences

24
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Balanced sentence

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Emphasis the contrast in ideas by putting them in the same sentence

25
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The predicate

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Words which tell us more about the subject

26
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Inversion

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The predicate comes before the subject

27
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Conversational

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Informal language
Chatty
Friendly tone

28
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Humorous

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Trying to be funny or lighthearted

29
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Serious

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Formal
Respectful
Solemn tone

30
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Satirical

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Extreme form of irony

31
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Tongue in cheek

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Form of irony

Sounds serious but has a sense of ridicule

32
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Euphemism

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Mild word or phrase used instead of a frank or offensive one

33
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Sarcastic

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Irony to criticise or show anger or contempt

34
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Effusive

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Enthusiastic
Used to persuade
Lots of superlatives

35
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Similes

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Like or as

Two things a compared

36
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Metaphors

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Two things are compared

One thing IS another

37
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Personification

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Object is given human qualities

38
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Assonance

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Religion of vowel sounds

39
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Alliteration

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Repetition of a letter at the winning of words

40
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Onomatopoeia

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Word which imitates the sound they describe

41
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Pun

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Play on words
Sound the same but different meanings
Usually humorous

42
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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

Highlights amount

43
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Litotes

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Deliberate understatement
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44
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Juxtaposition

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Placing side by side

Shows contrast

45
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Archaism

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Word from the part which is no longer used

46
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First person

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I

47
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2nd person

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“You will notice”

48
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3rd person

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“He” “she”

49
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Hyphen

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To join two words/ split words over a line

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