Syntax

Question 1

order: basic

Answer 1

subject + verb + object

Question 2

order: interrupted

Answer 2

a sentence that is interrupted by a parenthetical aside

Question 3

order: inverted

Answer 3

begins with a part of the sentence than the subject; used to delay revealing what the sentence is about, to create tension or suspense, and to connect ideas between sentences more clearly

Question 4

order: listing

Answer 4

a sentence with multiple phrases that create a list

Question 5

order: cumulative/loose

Answer 5

begins with subject and verb and adds modifying elements at end

Question 6

order: periodic

Answer 6

opens with modifiers, withholds subject and verb until the end

Question 7

order: parallelism- antithesis

Answer 7

established a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together or juxtaposing them, often in parallel structure

Question 8

order: parallelism- chiasmus

Answer 8

a crossing parallelism, where the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order

Question 9

order: parallelism- balanced

Answer 9

expressing parallel or like ideas - often compound

Question 10

declarative sentence

Answer 10

sentence that declares or states something

Question 11

imperative sentence

Answer 11

commands, requests, or instructs; subject is usually unstated “you”

Question 12

exclamatory sentence

Answer 12

expresses strong emotion; with “!”

Question 13

interrogative sentence

Answer 13

asks a question

Question 14

simple sentence

Answer 14

at least one subject, at least one predicate; can stand alone b/c it expresses a complete thought

Question 15

compound sentence

Answer 15

contains two or more independent clauses

Question 16

complex sentence

Answer 16

contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

Question 17

compound-complex sentence

Answer 17

contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

Question 18

ellipses

Answer 18

rhetorical figure in which one or more words are omitted

Question 19

asyndeton

Answer 19

omission of a conjunction from a list; gives the affect of unpremeditated multiplicity, or an extemporaneous rather than a labored account

Question 20

anadiplosis

Answer 20

rhetorical trope formed by repeating last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next; done for beauty or to give a sense of logical progression

Question 21

anaphora

Answer 21

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

Question 22

epistrophe

Answer 22

repetition of the same word(s) used that end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences; opposite of anaphora

Question 23

polysyndeton

Answer 23

use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause; opposite of asyndeton; feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up

Question 24

parenthetical aside

Answer 24

consists of a word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as an aside in the middle of another sentence

Question 25

colon

Answer 25

punctuation mark used to divide distinct but related sentence components such as clauses in which the second elaborates on the first, or to introduce a list, quotation, or speech

Question 26

semi-colon

Answer 26

connects two independent parts of a sentence

Question 27

dashes

Answer 27

used to indicate a sudden break in thought, to set off parenthetical material