Test: Rhetoric and Stylistic Devices

Syntax is

• comparison of two unlike things.

• the arrangement of words in a sentence.

• an important literary device.

• extreme exaggeration.

Sentence structure controls _______ and ______

• spelling and grammar

• verbal pacing and focus

• meaning and understanding

part of speech that connects clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause.

• adverb

• conjunction

• pronoun

• adjective

an independent clause with no conjunction or dependent clause

• simple sentence

• complex sentence

• compound sentence

• compound-complex

We call the group of conjunctions that link independent clauses to create compound sentences

• POWER

• BTS

• FANBOYS

• ABCDE

An exclamatory sentence ends with

• a comma,

• a period.

• a question mark?

• an exclamation point!

A declarative sentence ends with

• a comma,

• a period.

• a question mark?

• an exclamation point!

The common sentence structure in English is

• verb-object-subject

• object-verb-subject

• subject-verb-object

• subject-subject-verb

Withholding of syntactic closure (completion of grammatical structure) until the end of a sentence (close to the period).

• Periodic sentence

• loose sentence

• simple sentence

Reach syntactic closure early relieving tension and allowing reader to explore the rest of the sentence without urgency.

• Periodic sentence

• loose sentence

• simple sentence