01.+Sentences

media type="custom" key="4479312" =// Put quotation marks around the sentence. Follow that with the author's name in bold, and then add the novel in italics (or story in quotation marks) and the year it was published. //= "I lean my head against the cold glass window and try not to think about all the stupid things I've done, all the bad things I've done, and all the pain I've caused everyone."
 * Brent Runyon, //The Burn Journals//, 2004** This sentence uses anaphora, alliteration, and parallel construction. This sounds poetic.

"At the end of Corridor 223, behind the big black door with the number 16 stamped on it by the Numerical Patrol, the Heap household slept peacefully."
 * Angie Sage, Septimus Heap Book One: Magyk, 2005** This is an example of a periodic sentence; this sentence type is used to withold the key information until we reach the end. It uses several prepositional phrases at the beginning of the sentence.

"Sweat poured from his face and his hands and his body; he was drenched in the hotness of his fear." **Ray Bradbury from the short story "Dark They Were, And Golden-Eyed," 1949** This sentence connects each short sentence with //**and**//: this is called polysyndeton. The purpose is to build up tension. There is also a metaphor in the second half of the sentence.

"They go from wall to wall and even cover the ceiling: Jim Brown, Gale Sayers, Eric Dickerson, Emmitt Smith, Barry Sanders--you name him and I've got a poster." **Carl Deuker**, **//Gym Candy//, 2007 ​ ** The use of a colon to introduce specific examples and then a hyphen followed by a clause provides pauses and use of a variety of punctuation marks. The details allow the reader to visualize the kid's room.

Thought I'd add a bunch of complex sentences in a fun way: media type="custom" key="4635914"