Epithet

4. “Take some more tea”, the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.

“I’ve had nothing yet”, Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more”.

“You mean, you can’t take less”, said the Hatter: “It’s very easy to take more than nothing”.

. Carroll Antithesis

1. Most of the children here have had measles. Those that haven’t are sure to have it sooner or later.

A.J. Cronin

2. His cigar bobbed up and down, discharging ash partly on himself, partly on the polished linoleum floor.

A. Hailey

3. It was a signal of tuberculosis; whether old or recent they would know in a moment.

A. Hailey

4. “Storm or not, contracts decreed that air freight perishables must arrive at destination fresh, and swiftly”.

A. Hailey Detached construction Parenthesis

1. His place of business – whatever high-class dentists choose to call it – was quite ready for him when he arrived at Hanbridge.

A. Bennett

2. She had a warmth of spirit – he had once described it to himself as a strong kindness – that was at once soothing and restoring.

A. Hailey

3. As he watched her now – she had stopped to speak with one of the interns – he saw her raise a hand and push back her hair from the side of her face.

A. Hailey

4. After tea, while Mary had gone to wash the dishes, - she insisted that Christine looked tired, - Andrew detached the baby from Mrs. Boland and played with it on the hearthrug before the fire.

A.J. Cronin

5. He ran up the porch steps, threw open the front door and there, in the hall, he found Llewellyn.

A. J. Cronin

The author inserts the phrase “in the hall” into this statement to give additional information. This sentence is logically and grammatically completed even without this phrase.

6. Next he constructed, very simply, a dust chamber in which for certain hours of the day the animals were exposed to concentrations of the dust, others being unexposed – the controls.

A. Cronin