AP Language Rhetoric- Schemes Flashcards
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| 7363291060 | Alliteration | Repetition of same sound at the beginning of adjacent words. i.e: Big black bugs bleed big black blood. | 0 | |
| 7363305638 | Anadiplosis | Form of repetition where the last word of one sentence is repeated at the beginning of the following one. i.e: What I want is freedom. Freedom to live. | 1 | |
| 7363323003 | Anaphora | Word(s) that is repeated at the beginning of 2 or more successive clauses. i.e :AnAphorA the A is repeated 3X | 2 | |
| 7363361826 | Anapodoton | Where the main clause is suggested by the introduction of subordinate clause (main clause never occurs) i.e: "If you think I'm gonna sit here and take your insults..." | 3 | |
| 7363378825 | Anastrophe | Departure from normal word order for the sake of emphasis. i.e: Troubles, everybody's got. | 4 | |
| 7363396724 | Antimetabole | Words or clauses from first half of a sentence that are repeated at the second half but in reverse. i.e: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." | 5 | |
| 7363420854 | Antithesis | Contrasting words. sentences, or concepts within parallel grammatical structures. i.e: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. | 6 | |
| 7363431365 | Apposition | When one noun follows another to describe it (noun that follows= appostion) | 7 | |
| 7363443700 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound or diphthong in non-rhyming words. (words must be close) i.e: A stitch in tIme saves the nIne. | 8 | |
| 7363464604 | Asyndeton | Omission of a conjunction such as "and" or "as" from a series of related clauses. i.e: "I came, I saw, I conquered." | 9 | |
| 7363479217 | Chiasmus | Repetition of ideas in an inverted order. i.e: It is boring to eat; to sleep is a fulfilling. | 10 | |
| 7363488964 | Diacope | Repetition of a word with one to more words in between, usually to express feeling. i.e: "All lost! To prayers, to prayers! All lost!" | 11 | |
| 7363510806 | Ellipsis | Omission of words. i.e: So...what happened? | 12 | |
| 7363516186 | Epanalepsis | Repetition of the same word or clause after inverting matter. i.e: "A lie begets a lie." | 13 | |
| 7363533017 | Epistrophe/Epiphora | Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word(s). i.e: We are born to sorrow, pass our time in sorrow, end our days in sorrow. | 14 | |
| 7363547518 | Hyperbaton | An inversion of normal word order. Adding words to a completed sentence to draw emphasis to the ending. i.e: Why should their liberty than ours be more? | 15 | |
| 7363561146 | Isocolon | Series of similarly structured elements having the same length. A kind of parallelism. i.e: "I came, I saw, I conquered." | 16 | |
| 7363573307 | Metaplasmus | Effective misspelling of a word. i.e: Oh frigging heck! | 17 | |
| 7363579865 | Parallelism | Usage of repeating words and forms to give pattern and rhythm to a passage. i.e: Easy come, easy go. | 18 | |
| 7363601805 | Parenthesis | Qualifying or explanatory sentence, clause or word that writers insert into their work. i.e: () | 19 | |
| 7363616743 | Polyptoton | Repetition of words with the same root for rhetorical effect. i.e: "Choosy mothers choose JIF." | 20 | |
| 7363628719 | Polysyndeton | Employing many conjunctions between clauses, often slowing the tempo or rhythm. i.e:Poly= many (many conjunctions) | 21 | |
| 7363645318 | Prothesis | The addition of a letter or syllable to the beginning of a word. i.e: Adown we tumbled. | 22 | |
| 7363653658 | Tmesis | Interjecting a word or phrase between parts of a compound word or between syllables of a word. i.e: He shall be punished, what MAN soever offendeth. | 23 |