Chapter Ⅰ
SYNTACTIC DEVICES
Ⅰ.0 Introduction
Ⅰ.1 Long and short Sentences
Ⅰ.2-4 The simple Sentence
.2 Characteristtics of the Simple Sentence
.3 The Noun Phrase in Simple Sencence
.4 The Adverbial Phrase in simple Sentences
Ⅰ.5 The compound Sentence
Ⅰ.6 The complex Sentence
Ⅰ.7 Simple,Compound and Complex Sentences Combined
Ⅰ.8-11 Branching Sentences
.8 The Right-branching or Loose Sentence
.9 The Left-branching or Periodic Sentence
.10 Multi-branching
Ⅰ.12 The Active and the Passive Voiced Sentences
Ⅰ.13-16 Syntactic Schemes of Balance
.13 General Remarks
.14 Parallelism
.15 Antithesis
.16 Chiasmus and Antimetabole
Ⅰ.17 syntactic Schemes of Inversion
Ⅰ.18-22 Syntactic Shemes of Omission
.18 General Remarks
.19 Ellipsis
.20 Fragmentary Elliptical Sentence
.21 Asyndeton(Omission of Conjunctions)
.22 Aplsiopesis(Breaking off Halway in a Sentence)
Ⅰ.23-29 syntactic Shemes of Addition of Insertion
Ⅰ.30-39 Syntactic Schemes of Repetition
Ⅰ.31-34 Series
Ⅰ.35-39 Repetition of Sentences (in whole or in Part)
Ⅰ.40-41 Syntactic Schemes of Climax and Anticlimax
Ⅰ.42 Rhetorical Question
Ⅰ.43 Apodioxis
Ⅰ.44 Apostrophe