AP Lang - Schemes

parallelism

When a sentence has phrases with the same grammatical structure.

isocolon

Two parallel phrases with a very similar structure and length.

antithesis

It is the opposite of a sentence

anastrophe

The inversion of the usual order of words or structure of a phrase.

parenthesis

An afterthought inserted into a sentence using brackets.

apposition

Words in a phrase that are parallel and placed side by side.

ellipsis

An ellipsis

asyndeton

The absence of a conjunction in a sentence.

polysyndeton

A polysyndeton is adding an unnecessary conjugation into a sentence.

alliteration

The repetition of certain sounds close together in a sentence or few sentences.

assonance

The repetition of certain vowel sounds within a group of words.

anaphora

The repetition of a word in the beginning of successive clauses.

epistrophe

The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a clause

epanalepsis

A phrase that begins and ends the same sentence or phrase.

anadiplosis

A repeated phrase at the end of one clause and the beginning of another.

climax

The main issue in the story

antimetabole

Repeating a phrase but in the reverse order.

chiasmus

A grammatical sentence where one phrase is inverted to create the next.

polyptoton

The repetition of a root word