The Art of the Sentence
Sentence Style Portfolio
of
Helen Gunn

• 1. simple sentence
• 2. elaborated simple sentence
• 3. loose sentence
• 4. periodic sentence
• 5. the simple sentence, anticipation
• 6. the simple sentence, interruption
• 7. the simple sentence, afterthought
• 8. inverted sentence
• 9. compound sentence
• 10. elaborated compound sentence
• 11. complex sentence with anticipation
• 12. complex sentence with afterthought
• 13. elaborated complex sentence
• 14. complex sentence with interruption by relative clause--non-restrictive
• 15. complex sentence with interruption by relative clause--restrictive clause
• 16. representative series sentence--two-part
• 17. representative series sentence--three-part
• 18. representative series sentence--four-part
• 19. representative series sentence--five-part
• 20. asyndeton
• 21. polysyndeton
• 22. anaphora
• 23. stylistic series sentence--epistrophe
• 24. stylistic series sentence--symploce
• 25. compound-complex sentence
• 26. elaborated compound complex sentence
• 27. key word repeated
• 28. key word repeated--epizeuxis
• 29. repositioned adjective sentence
• 30. alliterative sentence
• 31. rhetorical question
• 32. negative rhetorical sentence
• 33. interrupted sentence--explanation
• 34. interrupted sentence--the aside
• 35. negative-positive sentence
• 36. positive-negative sentence
• 37. antimetabole
• 38. antithesis
• 39. figurative sentence--reification
• 40. the master sentence