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Chapter 1 Syntactic Devices
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Long and Short Sentences
1.3 The Simple Sentence
1.4 The Compound Sentence
1.5 The Complex Sentence
1.6 Simple,Compound and Complex Sentences
1.7 Branching Sentences
1.8 The Active and the Passive Voiced Sentences
1.9 Syntactic Schemes of Balance
1.10 Syntactic Schemes of Inversion
1.11 Syntactic Schemes of Omission
1.12 Syntactic Schemes of Addition or Insertion
1.13 Syntactic Schemes of Repetition
1.14 Syntactic Schemes of Climax and Anti-climax
1.15 Rhetorcal Question
1.16 Apodioxis
1.17 Apostrophe
1.18 Syntactic Schemes with "it"
1.19 Existential Sentences
Chapter 2 Lexical Devices
2.1 Introduction
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Chapter 3 Phonetic Devices and Prose Rhythm
Chapter 4 Figures of Speech
Chapter 5 Allusions
Chapeter 6 Skewed Quotations