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Exclamation
You have some nerve!
Negative Expression
Dido and Aeneas’s love affair was not tragic, but pathetic.
Introductory Predicate Nominative
Knucklehead was his name.
Introductory Predicate Adjective
Happy is the lad whose heart is pure.
Non-sentence/Rhetorical Fragment
Perhaps.
Introductory Prepositional phrase(s)
In the selection of a beau, Susan used only two criteria.
Introductory Prepositional Phrase(s) with Inverted Sentence
In the midst of the swirling sea of dancers stood a solitary woman.
Question
Why question so obvious a point?
Introductory Infinitive Phrase as a modifier
To write, one must first think.
Introductory Infinitive Phrase as the subject
To complain constantly is a waste of time—mine and yours.
Introductory Participial Phrase
Peering down the blue steel barrel, Landon only sighed as he watched the young buck drink from Sandy Creek.
Introductory Absolute Phrase
Fingers racing, Irving typed his paper furiously.
Absolute phrase appearing elsewhere
Irving, his nerves frayed, grew ever more desperate to complete his paper as the sun peeked over the horizon.
Introductory Adverb Clause
Since we must write a paper, we would be stupid not to find an interesting topic.
Introductory Adjective
Asleep, the two-year-old boy looked like an angel.
Introductory Adverb
Nearby waited a sleek, black limousine.
Nominative by Pleonasm
Four ushers, a small person with enormous eyes, an alley cat—all of them were stranded in the cloakroom among abandoned wraps long after the concert had finished.
Compound Introductory Adverb Clauses
Although her topic fascinated her and even though she had researched it well, Emily had difficulty writing her research paper.
Compound Participial Phrases
Alternately humming to himself and whistling “Oh, Susanna,” Officer Shaw took down the flag and began to fold it.
Compound Introductory Infinitive Phrases as modifiers
To inform students about plagiarism and to discourage cheating on assignments, Dr. Summers wrote the LAMP Honor Code.
Compound Introductory Adjectives
Crisp and green, the bills lay in neat rows on the counter.
Compound Absolute Phrases
Eyes bleary with overuse and legs trembling with fatigue, Derrick turned in his research paper.
Simile
Mrs. Frucci's uncle used to say that going to church made him as nervous as a pregnant monkey on a rotten grapevine.
Metaphor (direct)
An infant is a blank page.
Metaphor (indirect)
Johnny soon found himself caught in Jane's web.
Personification
John tried to shut out the sound of the howling wind.
Oxymoron
As the condemned man stepped out of the courthouse, he heard only thunderous silence.
Paradox
Alexander Pope first accused literary critics of "damning with faint praise.”
Hyperbole
Rather than write her paper, Rachel thought she'd prefer to face a firing squad.
Synecdoche*
Let's go grab a bite.
Synecdoche
Using a part of something to represent the whole
Metonymy*
The White House responded to its critics yesterday.
Metonymy
Using something closely related to the actual object as a way of referring to the object itself
Reversal of a Cliché
“The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's on the list.”
Antithetical sentence
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well and you will soon write quickly.
Balanced sentence
The world is very old, and human beings are very young.
Cumulative/loose sentence
The women moved through the streets as winged messengers, twirling around each other in slow motion, peeking inside homes and watching the easy sleep of men and women.
Periodic sentence
In spite of our rubber coats, before we had gone a hundred yards through the wet grass and underbrush that covered the hillside, we were drenched.