Rhetorical Schemes and Definitions
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| 7567110557 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses. | 0 | |
| 7567110558 | 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). | 1 | |
| 7567110559 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure. | 2 | |
| 7567110560 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order. (Yoda speak) | 3 | |
| 7567110561 | Parenthesis | Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of a sentence | 4 | |
| 7567110562 | Apposition | Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. | 5 | |
| 7567110563 | Climax | The arrangement of words in order of increasing importance | 6 | |
| 7567110564 | 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." | 7 | |
| 7567110565 | Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 8 | |
| 7567110566 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of many conjunctions. From the Greek for "bound together." | 9 | |
| 7567110567 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonants in two or more adjacent words. From the Latin "putting letters together." | 10 | |
| 7567110568 | Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants. From the Latin for "sound." | 11 | |
| 7567110569 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses. From the Greek for "carrying back." | 12 | |
| 7567110570 | Consonance | The repetition of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. From the Latin for "agree" + "sounds." | 13 | |
| 7567110571 | Epistrophe | The repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses. From the Greek for "return." | 14 | |
| 7567110572 | Epanalepsis | Repeating a word from the beginning of a clause at the end of the same clause From the Greek for "repetition." | 15 | |
| 7567110573 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 16 | |
| 7567110574 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. | 17 | |
| 7567110575 | Chiasmus | Reversal of grammatical structure in successive phrases or clauses (literally, "the criss-cross"). Like antimetabole, but without the repetition. Think "reverse parallelism." | 18 | |
| 7567110576 | Polyptoton | Repetition of words derived from the same root. Similar to word play, but the words do not lose their original meaning. | 19 | |
| 7586351566 | isocolon | I like to read, to write, and to eat | 20 | |
| 7586351567 | parallelism | Elon Musk is a smart, determined, and humble person. | 21 | |
| 7586351568 | antithesis | it was the best of times, it was the worst of times | 22 | |
| 7586351569 | anastrophe | "If't be so, For Banquo's issue have I fil'd my mind, For them the gracious Duncan have I murther'd, Put rancors in the vessel of my peace Only for them, and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings -the seed of Banquo kings! Rather than so, come, Fate, into the list, And champion me to the utterance!" - Macbeth, William Shakespeare | 23 | |
| 7586351570 | parenthesis | Bob(a great fighter) fought with Floyd Mayweather. | 24 | |
| 7586351571 | apposition | My tree, the biggest tree in the neighborhood, is a true wonder. | 25 | |
| 7586351572 | ellipsis | I wanted to get a good grade. . .but the teacher taught me the wrong material for the exam. | 26 | |
| 7586351573 | asyndeton | "Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the Earth"(Lincoln's Gettysburg Address) | 27 | |
| 7586351574 | polysyndeton | I was afraid of spiders, beetles, and grasshoppers, and insects, and lions, and all these other things. | 28 | |
| 7586351575 | alliteration | Sally steadily sat on a see-saw. | 29 | |
| 7586351576 | assonance | Charles Barkley was once called the "Round mound of rebound." | 30 | |
| 7586351577 | anaphora | I had a happy life. I had a great family. I had a nice car. I had a nice house. | 31 | |
| 7586351578 | epistrophe | I hated him. You hated him. Society hated him. Everyone hated him | 32 | |
| 7586351579 | epanalepsis | The king is here; God save the king! | 33 | |
| 7586351580 | anadiplosis | Strength through purity, purity through faith - Chancellor Adam Susan, V for Vendetta | 34 | |
| 7586351581 | climax | "It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent. Nothing has been left undone to cripple their intellects, darken their minds, debase their moral stature, obliterate all traces of their relationship to mankind; and yet how wonderfully they have sustained the mighty load of a most frightful bondage, under which they have been groaning for centuries!" (Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, 1845) | 35 | |
| 7586351582 | antimetabole | "The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence." -- Carl Sagan | 36 | |
| 7586351583 | chiasmus | One should eat to live, not live to eat. - Cicero | 37 | |
| 7586351584 | polyptoton | "His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars."—William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 1950 | 38 |
