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- rhetorical fragment
- a fragment used for persuasive or creative effect, e.g. "WOW!"
- balanced sentence
- a sentence with two equally important clauses, e.g. "I went to the park, and later I went home to have dinner"
- zeugma
- use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one, e.g. "took his hat and his leave"
- inverted sentence
- predicate proceeds subject, e.g. "among the weeds, were a few wildflowers"
- chiasmus
- a sentence dominated by inverted parallelism, e.g. "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more"
- complex sentence
- inequal clauses independent where the independent comes before the dependent
- compound-complex
- 1 dependent clause and 2 or more independent clauses
- loose/cumulative sentence
- basic statement with a string of details, e.g. "bell rang, filling the air, startling pigeons"
- epistrophe
- repition of concluding phrases/clauses
- parallel structure
- same patterns of words and verb tenses