AP Language and Composition: Rhetorical Schemes Flashcards

For expanded definitions and examples, examine http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm or http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm or
http://www.mrgunnar.net/files/Schemes%20and%20Tropes%20complete%20HO.pdf (to whom I am greatly indebted).

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4035521967	Parallelism	--similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses	0
4035521968	Isocolon	--similarity not only of structure but of length	1
4035521969	Antithesis	--the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure	2
4035521970	Anastrophe	--inversion of the natural or usual word order	3
4035521971	Parenthesis	--insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence	4
4035521972	Apposition	--placing side by side two co-ordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first	5
4035521973	Ellipsis	--the deliberate omission of a word or of words readily implied by the context	6
4035521974	Asyndeton	--deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series	7
4035521975	Polysyndeton	--deliberate use of many conjunctions	8
4035521976	Alliteration	--repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words	9
4035521977	Assonance	--the repetition of similar vowel forms, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words	10
4035521978	Anaphora	--repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses	11
4035521979	Epistrophe	--repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	12
4035521980	Epanalepsis	--repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause	13
4035521981	Anadiplosis	--repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	14
4035521982	Climax	--arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance	15
4035521983	Schemes	--rhetorical figure of speech which involves changing the order of words in a sentence	16
4035521984	Antimetabole	--repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order	17
4035521985	Chiasmus	--reversal of grammatical structures in a successive clauses (but no repetition of words)	18
4035521986	Polyptoton	--repetition of words derived from the same root	19