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Simple
One main clause
Compound
More than one main clause
Minor sentence
Verbless sentence
Tense or dramatic mood
Statement
Tells you something a fact
Calm impersonal tone
Rhetorical question
Emphasis Involve the reader more Makes reader question their own views Challenge the reader Shows uncertainty
Exclamation
Tone of strong emotion
Emotive or dramatic tone
Long
Old fashioned language
Build up tense
Build up a detailed description
Of a setting or character
Short sentences
Great impact
Slow down the action
Create suspense
Easy language?
Colon
Introduce a quotation, list, explanation, expansion
Climax created?
Anti climax?
Semi colon
Used instead of a conjunction
Separate phrases in a list
Creates a pause
Balance a sentence
Inverted commas
Indicate a title Spoken words Quotations Foreign words Highlight a word in a sentence (make it stand out)
Single dash
Introduce extra information, explanation, expansion
Shows a sentence breaking off
Series of dashes
Convey outpouring of ideas/ emotions
Informal
Commas
Separate phrases and clauses
Indicate list?
Parenthesis (parenthetical clause)
Extra information
Nonessential information
Command
Orders you to do something
Persuasive
Instruction
Ellipsis
Break in speech or thought
Suggests doubt
Listing
Highlight the number or range of something
Shows climax
List of verbs
Sense of action
Repetition
Emphasis a point
Stress a particular word or phrase
Religion of “I” is egotistical
Climax
Builds tension
Sense of progress
Ends at the most powerful word
Anti-climax
Building towards something that doesn’t happen in the end
Surprise
Undercuts the readers expectation
Contrast
Highlight differences
Balanced sentence
Emphasis the contrast in ideas by putting them in the same sentence
