Repetitionof the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.

"beech changed to elm, and elm to fir, and fir to stone."

The repetition of the same word of group or words at the beginnings of successive clauses.

"We shall fight at the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills."

Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reversal grammatical order.

"One should eat to live, not live to eat.

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

The juxaposition of contrasting ideas, often used in parallel structure.

"What if I am rich, and another is poor --strong, and he is weak--intelligence, and he is benighted--elevated, and he is depraved?"

Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modifications of the first.

"The mountain was earth, her home."

Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related cluses.

"I came I saw, I conquered."

Reversal of gammatical structures in successful phrases or clauses.

"It is time a moment, and a point his space."

"Exalts his enemies, his friends destroy."

Arrangement or words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance.

"Let a man acknowledge obligations to his family, his contry, and his God."

Deliberate omission of a word or words which are ready implied by the context.

"So singularity clear was the water then when it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom seemed floating on the air!"

Repetition at the end of a clause of a word that occured at the beginning of a clause.

"Blood hath brought blood, and blows have answered blows, strength match'd with strength, and power confronted powers."

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.

"When he first came we were many and you were few. Now you are many and we are getting very few."

The use of exaggerated for the purpose of the emphasis or heightened effect.

"It rained for four years, eleven months, and two days."

A scheme of parallel structure whch occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length.

"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."

Similarity of structure in a pair of series or related words, phrases, and clauses.

"So Janey waited a bloomtime , and a green time and an orange time."

"... the love, liberty, jury, trial, the writ of habeas corpus, and all the blessings of the same governments."

Insertiion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of sentences.

"And they went further and further from her being attached to her by a thin thread which would stretch and stretch, get thinner as they worked across London, as if one's friend wore..."

Repetition of words derived from the same root.

"We would like to contain the uncertainable future in a glass."

Deliberate use of many conjunctions to slow down the rhytem.

"I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said,'I don't know who killed him but he's deaed alright.' and it was a dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and boats...

A question that does not need to be asked because the answer is obvious.

"Is this really what the Earth deserves?"

A type of sentence in which the sentence is simply declaring something.

"I like to eat yogurt."

I am doing these flashcards."

A type of sentence in which the sentence proposes a question to the reader.

"When are these flashcards over?"

A type of sentence that gives a command to the reader.

 "I want extra credit for these flashcards."

A sentence that ends with an exclamation point

"These flashcards are taking forever!"

A sentence that contains one individual independent clause.

"I would like to go to bed."

A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses, connected by glue.

"I want to go to bed, but I really need to get extra credit in this class.

A sentence that has an independent clauseand a dependent clause.

"Even though it is late, I have to finish these flashcards."

A sentence that contains a dependent clause, followed by two or more independent clausesconnected with glue.

"When I finish these flashcards, I am going straight to bed, because it is very late."

a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end, after all introductory elements such as words, phrases, and dependent clauses. The effect is to add emphasis and structural variety;

"across the stream, beyond the clearing, from behind a fallen tree, the lion emerged."

This is a sentence that begins with one independent clause, and then is followed by more than one modifying, subordinate construction (several details are given for the same subject).

"Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up."

frank; outspoken; open and sincere