Why study

rhetoric?

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“One independent clause with no subordinate

clauses. It does not contain more than one full

sentence pattern.”

Simple Sentence

EXAMPLE: JFK was a democratic president from

Massachusetts.

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“Composed of two or more independent clauses

with no subordinate clauses. The two clauses are

usually joined by a comma and a conjunction or

a semicolon.”

Compound Sentence

EXAMPLE: I studied English literature in college,

but I took six years to get my degree.

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“Composed of one independent clause and one

or more subordinate clauses.”

Complex Sentence

EXAMPLE: “They that sow in tears shall reap in

joy.

"that sow in tears" is the subordinate clause.”

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“Contains at least two independent clauses and

at least one subordinate clause.”

Compound-Complex

EXAMPLE: “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell

you what you are.

This sentence contains two independent clauses

(one before and one after the comma) and each

independent clause contains a subordinate clause

("what you eat" and "what you are").”

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“A sentence that completes the main idea at the

beginning of the sentence, and then builds and

adds on.”

Cumulative Sentence

EXAMPLE: “But neither can two great and

powerful groups of nations take comfort from our

present course—both sides overburdened by the

cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by

the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both

racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror

that stays the hand of mankind’s final war.”

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“A sentence whose main clause is withheld until

the end.”

Periodic Sentence

EXAMPLE: “To that world assembly of sovereign

states, the United Nations, our last best hope in

an age where the instruments of war have far

outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew

our pledge of support.”

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“A sentence used to make a simple statement.”

Declarative Sentence

EXAMPLE: My dog barks incessantly at the

neighbors.

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“A sentence used to make an exclamation”

Exclamatory Sentence

EXAMPLE: I have not, and never will be, a

communist!

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“A sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to

action.”

Hortative Sentence

EXAMPLE: “Let both sides explore what problems

unite us instead of belaboring those problems

which divide us.”

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“A sentence used to command, enjoin, implore,

or entreat.”

Imperative Sentence

EXAMPLE: “My fellow citizens of the world: ask

not what American will do for you, but what

together we can do for the freedom of man.”

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence

“A sentence used to ask a question.”

Interrogative Sentence

EXAMPLE: Do you want raspberries with your ice

cream?

The

End

•Simple Sentence

•Compound Sentence

•Complex Sentence

•Compound-Complex

•Cumulative Sentence

•Periodic Sentence

•Declarative Sentence

•Exclamatory Sentence

•Hortative Sentence

•Imperative Sentence

•Interrogative Sentence