| Term | Definition |
| Declarative | Statement |
| Interrogative | Question |
| Imperative | Command |
| Exclamatory | Exclamation |
| Loose/Cummulative | Main idea at beginning of sentence |
| Periodic | Main idea at end of sentence |
| Balanced | Phrases and clauses are balanced |
| Antithesis | Opposites within a sentence, comparison (yet, but) |
| Juxtaposition | Unassociated ideas, words, or phrases placed next to another |
| Parallelism | Similar sentence structures |
| Rhetorical Question | Question that has no answer |
| Anaphora | Repetition of words at beginning of sentence |
| Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions |
| Epistrophe | Repetition of words at end of sentence |
| Polysyndeton | Use of many conjunctions |
| Zeugma | Use of verb with 2 different meanings w/ objects that complement both meanings |
| Inversion | Invert basic sentence pattern |