Sentence Strutures Flashcards
Tell: show three
He was feeling worried: legs twitching; lip biting; hands wringing.
Adverb, embedded clause, main clause
Reluctantly, after hours of waiting, i left dissatisfied
3 verb
The monster pushed, crashed and smashed its way through
Colon to clarify
a strange hint of something filled his nostrils and made his stomach lurch: it was blood
So so
There was one item, so small, so unrecognisable, it didn’t register
Two- img verbs
Raising a hand to my brow, shielding my eyes from the rain, I saw no monster
Epizeuxis
Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea
Anadiplosis
The town was silent, silent because of the people taken by the war.
Anaphora
Are you content you pretty wife? Are you content to give to him your life?
Antistrophe
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a women I put away childish things
Minor sentences
Ominous skies. Silence. Plaster peeling from walls
One simile, three evers
The silhouette standing on the hill, looking out, keeping watch like the Like the North Star at night, ever present ever caring, ever there.
Outside (inside)
He smiled and warmly shook the man’s hand ( however, he secretly wished him dead)
Description: detail
I was exhausted: I hadn’t slept in two days
It was; it was
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times
As if- ing
He pulled absently at some grass, as if searching for memories yearning for answers, crying out for help
The sequencing sentence
She blinked, looked behind her, checked her watch, raised the phone to her mouth and spoke softly
The paralleling sentence
It was there. It was in the shadow. It was there, in front of him, in the dark shadows- breathing hoarsely
Juxtaposing short and long sentences
The night grew darker, scarier, more sinister as it seemed to cave in and suffocate me, making it increasingly difficult to breathe. Silence followed
The repeated sentence
The night grew darker, scarier, more sinister as it seemed to cave in and suffocate me, making it increasingly difficult to breathe. Silence descended. Flickering, the moon cast spots of light through the darkness. Silence descended. The more he struggled to breathe, the quieter it seemed. Still, silenced descended
Personification + 3 tos
Harsh white walls frown at the monotone uniformed prisoners with blank faces and blank eyes; guns hover, thunderously muted, waiting for someone to move, to think, to hope
