AP English Language: Schemes Flashcards

Rhetorical Schemes and Definitions

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