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  2. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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    A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clause and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence. Sentence 1 is an example of a simple sentence. Sentence 2 is compound because "so" is considered a coordinating conjunction in English, and sentence 3 is complex.

  3. Loose sentence - Wikipedia

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    A loose sentence (also called a cumulative sentence) is a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases. Construction

  4. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Hermeneutics – the theoretical underpinnings of interpreting texts, usually religious or literary. Heteroglossia – the use of a variety of voices or styles within one literary work or context. Homeoteleuton – a figure of speech where adjacent or parallel words have similar endings inside a verse, a sentence. Authors often use it to evoke ...

  5. Compound sentences - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 3 October 2020, at 14:06 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may ...

  6. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    A major sentence is a regular sentence; it has a subject and a predicate, e.g. "I have a ball." In this sentence, one can change the persons, e.g. "We have a ball." However, a minor sentence is an irregular type of sentence that does not contain a main clause, e.g. "Mary!", "Precisely so.", "Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark."

  7. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  8. Man getting packages finds missing babies in a ditch - AOL

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    A man found 4-month-old and 5-month-old baby girls in a ditch outside his Indianapolis home after they were kidnapped in a vehicle earlier in the day.

  9. The Structure of Literature - Wikipedia

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    The Structure of Literature is a 1954 book of literary criticism by Paul Goodman, the published version of his doctoral dissertation in the humanities.The book proposes a mode of formal literary analysis that Goodman calls "inductive formal analysis": Goodman defines a formal structure within an isolated literary work, finds how parts of the work interact with each other to form a whole, and ...