Figures of Speech: Schemes

Flashcards covering key figures of speech and rhetorical schemes discussed in the lecture.

Scheme

An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

Parallelism

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses.

Isocolon

A series of similarly structured elements having the same length.

Tricolon

Three parallel elements of the same length occurring together.

Antithesis

Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure.

Climax

Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance.

Anastrophe

Inversion of natural word order.

Parenthesis

Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow.

Apposition

Addition of an adjacent, coordinate explanatory element.

Ellipsis

Omission of a word or words readily implied by context.

Asyndeton

Omission of conjunctions between a series of clauses.

Brachylogia

Omission of conjunctions between a series of words.

Polysyndeton

Superabundance of conjunctions.

Alliteration

Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.

Assonance

Repetition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables of adjacent words.

Polyptoton

Repetition of words derived from the same root.

Anatanaclasis

Repetition of a word in two different senses.

Anaphora

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.

Epistrophe

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses.

Epanalepsis

Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning.

Anadiplosis

Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.

Antimetabole

Repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.

Chiasmus

Repetition of grammatical structures in reverse order in successive phrases or clauses.