Participle
Absolute
Appositives
Adjectives
In the realm of Nicolten, a land
of fierce raging conflict, a battle that took place among the Sinnista Mountains
shook the continent and forever changed the lands. This particular realm
was made completely of mountains. Neither a single plain nor forest existed
amount the rugged landscape.
A steel
construct named Chrono, stoic and relentless, was aimlessly roaming the mountainside.
Nearby a group of unsuspecting goblins,
Arsht and Flak, were fighting amongst themselves over a scrap of meat. Little
did these two groups know they were drawing upon each other.
Arsht,
anxiously awaiting, poached one of the king’s game to fill his belly while Flak
took a nap.
In an
unfortunate turn of events, Chrono stumbled upon the two goblins crushing them
with a fiery wrath, consuming them completely, leaving nothing but ashes.
Returning late: Gavel, Mitch, and Snipe, Arsht and Flak’s comrades,
entered the fray, but instead of avenging their fallen comrades Gavel and Mitch
pledged their loyalty to Chrono in fear of their lives; a typical goblin tactic
to stay alive. However, Snipe, a master of his craft, refused to side with
Chrono and opposed him with great rebuke; alas, Chrono quickly dispatched Snipe
with a searing spear of fire before he could plot any deviance. [There’s a lot going
on here… is there anything amiss?]
The
ensuing carnage, gruesome and brutal, did not go unheard. Clay, a heartless being, much like Chrono, happened to be
flying over and came down to rest on his shoulder. [Can I use two consecutive
appositives like this?]
Another flying beast, Miz-Nivvit who happened to be tracking
Clay also circled the field above letting out an unruly shriek. Miz-Nivvit was a beast like no
other, thrashed and grasped at the air, while continuing to circle.
Hearing his call for help, Hyperbola, Miz-Nivvit’s brother, swooped
in to join the fray.
The two
leered at Chrono and his unlikely companions, Maws gaping, ready to strike. Without hesitation the two descended in ravaging the group,
leaving nothing but wreckage and corpses, before returning to the sky to search
for their next prey.
I think I have everything labeled correctly aside from the
crazy sentence in the middle. Feel free to comment on anything.
pretty good, Nate--I think. You colored the whole sentence, rather than just the brush stroke, so I'm not sure which part you're referring to. Your absolute is off, but not much else. Yes, you have a whole string of appositives in one sentence if you want to.
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