Rhetorical Schemes and Definitions
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| 238222465 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses. | |
| 238222466 | Isocolon | Use of parallel elements similar not only in structure, as in parallelism, but in length (that is, the same number of words or even syllables). | |
| 238222467 | Tricolon | Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses. Sometimes called the "rule of threes." | |
| 238222468 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure. | |
| 238222469 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order. (Yoda speak) | |
| 238222470 | Parenthesis | Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of a sentence | |
| 238222471 | Apposition | Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. | |
| 238222472 | Climax | The arrangement of words in order of increasing importance | |
| 238222473 | Anticlimax | The arrangement of words in order of decreasing importance | |
| 238222474 | Ellipsis | Deliberate omission of a word or group of words which are readily implied by the context. From the Greek for "to leave out" or "to fall short." | |
| 238222475 | Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | |
| 238222476 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of many conjunctions. From the Greek for "bound together." | |
| 238222477 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonants in two or more adjacent words. From the Latin "putting letters together." | |
| 238222478 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants. From the Latin for "sound." | |
| 238222479 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses. From the Greek for "carrying back." | |
| 238222480 | Antistrophe | The repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. From the Greek for "return." | |
| 238222481 | Consonance | The repetition of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. From the Latin for "agree" + "sounds." | |
| 238222482 | Epistrophe | The repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. From the Greek for "return." | |
| 238222483 | Epanalepsis | Repetition at the end of a clause of the word(s) that occurred at the beginning of the clause. From the Greek for "repetition." | |
| 238222484 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | |
| 238222485 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. | |
| 238222486 | Chiasmus | Reversal of grammatical structure in successive phrases or clauses (literally, "the criss-cross"). Like antimetabole, but without the repetition. Think "reverse parallelism." | |
| 238222487 | Polyptoton | Repetition of words derived from the same root. Similar to word play, but the words do not lose their original meaning. | |
| 238222488 | Tautology | Needless repetition; or a statement that is unconditionally true by virtue of its form alone. From the Greek for "redundant." |
