Sentence Strutures

Question 1

Tell: show three

Answer 1

He was feeling worried: legs twitching; lip biting; hands wringing.

Question 2

Adverb, embedded clause, main clause

Answer 2

Reluctantly, after hours of waiting, i left dissatisfied

Question 3

3 verb

Answer 3

The monster pushed, crashed and smashed its way through

Question 4

Colon to clarify

Answer 4

a strange hint of something filled his nostrils and made his stomach lurch: it was blood

Question 5

So so

Answer 5

There was one item, so small, so unrecognisable, it didn’t register

Question 6

Two- img verbs

Answer 6

Raising a hand to my brow, shielding my eyes from the rain, I saw no monster

Question 7

Epizeuxis

Answer 7

Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea

Question 8

Anadiplosis

Answer 8

The town was silent, silent because of the people taken by the war.

Question 9

Anaphora

Answer 9

Are you content you pretty wife? Are you content to give to him your life?

Question 10

Antistrophe

Answer 10

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a women I put away childish things

Question 11

Minor sentences

Answer 11

Ominous skies. Silence. Plaster peeling from walls

Question 12

One simile, three evers

Answer 12

The silhouette standing on the hill, looking out, keeping watch like the Like the North Star at night, ever present ever caring, ever there.

Question 13

Outside (inside)

Answer 13

He smiled and warmly shook the man’s hand ( however, he secretly wished him dead)

Question 14

Description: detail

Answer 14

I was exhausted: I hadn’t slept in two days

Question 15

It was; it was

Answer 15

It was the best of times; it was the worst of times

Question 16

As if- ing

Answer 16

He pulled absently at some grass, as if searching for memories yearning for answers, crying out for help

Question 17

The sequencing sentence

Answer 17

She blinked, looked behind her, checked her watch, raised the phone to her mouth and spoke softly

Question 18

The paralleling sentence

Answer 18

It was there. It was in the shadow. It was there, in front of him, in the dark shadows- breathing hoarsely

Question 19

Juxtaposing short and long sentences

Answer 19

The night grew darker, scarier, more sinister as it seemed to cave in and suffocate me, making it increasingly difficult to breathe. Silence followed

Question 20

The repeated sentence

Answer 20

The night grew darker, scarier, more sinister as it seemed to cave in and suffocate me, making it increasingly difficult to breathe. Silence descended. Flickering, the moon cast spots of light through the darkness. Silence descended. The more he struggled to breathe, the quieter it seemed. Still, silenced descended

Question 21

Personification + 3 tos

Answer 21

Harsh white walls frown at the monotone uniformed prisoners with blank faces and blank eyes; guns hover, thunderously muted, waiting for someone to move, to think, to hope