Style Index

Openers (Must be the first word)
1. Sentential adverb (Indeed…, Thus…, That is…, In fact…, In short)
2. Infinitive (To read…, To write…, To be…, To run…)
3. www.asia (when, whereas, while, as, since, if, although)
4. –ing (knowing, fearing, wishing…)
5. –ed (shocked by…, tormented with, feared in…)
6. preposition (by, with, in, on, from…)
7. VSS (very short sentence: 3-5 words)

Upgrades (Must not be the first word)
1. quality (or sentential) adverb (quickly→feverishly)
2. www.asia (when, where, while, as, since, if, although)
3. quality adjective (…his clever→ingenious  ideas…)
4. …because…
5. strong verb (ran→sprinted)
6. who/which (… who denied everything…)
7. dual adv. or adj. (radiant and healthful)

Rhetorical Tropes
1. Metaphor (the city streets were a maze)
2. Simile (like those Nicean barks or yore)
3. Personification (desperate)
4. Rhetorical Question (was this ambition?)
5. Litotes (or Hyperbole) (not ugly)
6. Praeteritio (I won’t even mention…)
7. Allusion (the weary, way-worn wanderer = Odysseus)

Rhetorical Schemes

1. Anaphora (repeat beginnings)

2. Antithesis (not ____, but ____) (or Alliosis or Epanalepsis)

3. Asyndeton (Friends, Romans, Countrymen) (or Polysyndeton)

4. Antimetabole (A…B…B…A.) (or Chiasmus)

5. Epistrophe (or Rhyme)

6. Parallelism (the evil  that… the good is oft…) (or Climax)

7. Alliteration (so… Caesar)