Types of Sentences review Label each of the following sentences as balanced, convoluted, cumulative, parallel, or periodic Periodic ________It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. ——Jane Austen  Convoluted _______ Men, at the bottom of their hearts, know this.  Cumulative ________ A creek ran through the meadow, winding and turning, clear water running between steep banks of black earth, with shallow places where you build a dam.  Balanced ________ Children played about her; and she sang as she worked.  Periodic ________The standoff, already tense, reached fever pitch when a small child, probably age five or less, broke free from his mother’s grasp and ran in front of the police officers.

Types of Sentences review Label each of the following sentences as balanced, convoluted, cumulative, parallel, or periodic Parallel or balanced ________ "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Charles Dickens  Parallel ________ In its energy, its lyrics, its advocacy of frustrated joys, rock is one long symphony of protest.  Periodic ________ Despite heavy winds and nearly impenetrable ground fog, the plane landed safely. _________ “I came, I saw, I conquered.” -- Caesar  Cumulative ________ Bells rang, filling the air with their clangor, startling pigeons into flight from every belfry, bringing people into the streets to hear the news.

Rhetorical Device Review Label each of the following statements as employing anadiplosis, epanalepsis, epistrophe, chiasmus, polysyndeton or asyndeton Polysyndeton "Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness.“ (Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) Epanalepsis "He is noticeable for nothing in the world except for the markedness by which he is noticeable for nothing.” (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Literati of New York City." )  Anadiplosis Learn as though you would live forever; live as though you would die tomorrow. -- Gandhi Asyndeton "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." (Jack Kerouac, On the Road)  Chiasmus "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.“ -- JFK

Rhetorical Device Review Label each of the following statements as employing anadiplosis, epanalepsis, epistrophe, chiasmus, polysyndeton or asyndeton Epistrophe "Don't you ever talk about my friends! You don't know any of my friends. You don't look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn't condescend to speak to any of my friends.“ (The Breakfast Club) Chiasmus "Fair is foul, and foul is fair.“ (Macbeth I.i)  Anadiplosis "The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor.” (Gladiator) Epanalepsis "Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.“ (Phil. 4.4) "For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best.“ (JFK)