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| balanced sentence | a construction in which both halves of the sentence are about the same length and importance |
| parallel | two or more constructions in the same grammatical form (all infinitives, verbs, gerunds, etc) |
| antithesis | balancing of two opposites or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses |
| freight-train | a sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joinged by conjunctions |
| inverted | a sentence characterized by a reversal of normal word order |
| anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row |
| epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the ENDS of successive clauses |
| periodic | a sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence |
| loose or cumulative | a sentence in which the main idea comes first; an abundance of these produces informal style |
| asyndeton | commas uses with no conjunctions to separate a series of words |
| polysyndeton | sentence which uses "and" or another conjunction with no commas to separate items in a series |
| negative-positive restatement | sentence that begins by stating what is not true, then ending with what is true |
| tricolon | sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length |
| emphasis | openings and closings of sentences are especially sensitive to emphasis |
| antimetabole | repetition of WORDS, in clauses, in reverse grammatical order |
| Chiasmus | arrangement of REPEATED THOUGHTS in the pattern of XYYX. Often short; doesn't have to be same words |
| convoluted structure | the main clause is split in two, putting emphasis on the subordinate material in the middle |
| centered structure | the main clause occupies the middle position with subordinate material on either end |
| epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause, of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause |
| anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause |
