This experimental study used statistical analysis to assess the effects of Francis Christensen's “Generative Rhetoric of the Sentence” not only on syntactic
RHETORICAL TERMS 1 Abstract language: Qualities or characteristics that we conceive of mentally but cannot see, touch, or hear
These items are not really harder than the sentence structure, grammar, and punc- tuation items discussed so far, but they are different
Delayed sentence A sentence that withholds its main idea until the end A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true Epiphany
speeds up the flow of the sentence This is a form of parallelism “And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity
powering, not rhetorical but decontextualized, not progressive but remedial need to be able to talk about how a well-coordinated sentence can keep your