Active Voice Hortative SentenceAnaphora Imperative SentenceAnastrophe Independent ClauseAntecedent IsocolonAntitheses Loose or Cumulative SentenceApposition Parallelism/ Parallel StructureAsyndeton Passive VoiceClimax Periodic SentenceEmbedded Sentence PolysyndetonEpistrophe Predicate Adjective1aSentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls toaction. Ex: Let both sides explore what problems unite usinstead of belaboring those that divide us.the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject ofthe verb is performing the action or causing thehappening denoted by the verbSentence: The leopard chased the antelope.sentence structure that gives a commandEx: Go cut the grass.the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of succesivephrases or clausesEx:"I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, Ineeded a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."Raymond Chandler- Farewell, My Lovelya clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing asubject and a predicate with a finite verbSentence: -The crew could see the whale-, which hadsurfaced behind them.a rhetorical term for the inversion of the normalorder of the parts of a sentenceEx: She stared into the dog's eyes deep and menacing.a figure of speech or sentence having a parallel structureformed by the use of two or more clauses, or cola, ofsimilar lengthEx: "He said, she said."the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refersSentence: I love my brother so much I gave him chips.modifiers follow the SVC pattern allowing the strength ofthe sentence to come first Ex: I went to the movies yesterday, bought candy, andshopped at the mall.figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideasare balanced against each other using grammaticallyparallel syntaxEx: Bittersweet, pretty uglyexpressing similar or related ideas in similargrammatical structureEx: You need to work quickly and decisivelya syntactic relation between expressions, usually consecutive, that havethe same function and the same relation to other elements in thesentence, the second expression identifying or supplementing the firstEx: My best friend, Lee, caught a whelk when he was fishing for bass.the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject ofthe verb is the recipient (not the source) of the actiondenoted by the verbSentence: The bridge was blown up by engineers.conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid proseEx: He comes, he sleeps, he goes.the main idea comes last in the sentence leaving thereader with a more powerful last impressionEx: In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, thegame continued.the turning point or high point in a plot's actionEx: In the climactic scene of the movie, the aliens emergefrom the capsule and start zapping the onlookers.-grammar-monster.comthe opposite of asyndeton; the use of manyconjuctions has a slowing effectEx: We have ships and men and money and stores.a sentence that occurs within a sentence in a phrasestructure tree Ex: You know that sheepdogs can'tread.an adjective used in the prediate, especially wtih a copulative verband attributive to the subject or attributive to the direct objectSentence: Everything is funny as long as it is happening tosomebody else.the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more succesive verses, clauses, or sentencesEx: "A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break allbonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age ofmen comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight!" -Viggo Mortensen asAragorn in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King1bPredicate NominativeRhetorical QuestionSubject ComplementSubordinate ClauseSyntax2aa predicate noun or adjective in the nominative caseSentence: For many of us on the team, the fans werean embarrassment.questions that do not require an answerEx: infront of a crowd at the beginning of a speech youask "How many of you have ogne fishing?" you're notreally waiting for an answera word or a group of words, usually functioning as an adjective ornoun, that is used in the predicate following a copula and describesor is identified with the subject of the sentenceSentence: Ben is a policeman.a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part ofit or that serves a noun function in the principal clauseSentence: The crew could see the whale, -which hadsurfaced behind them.-the grammatical arrangement ofwords in sentences2b