Figured of speech: Schemes Flashcards

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(Structures of Balance)

                    Isocolon
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A series of similarly structured elements having the same length.

Ex: His purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous.

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(Structures of Balance)

                  Parallelism
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Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

Ex: We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor

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(Structures of Balance)

                    Tricolon
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Three parallel elements of the same length occurring together.

Ex: Vini, vidi, vici.
Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered.

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(Structures of Balance)

                   Antithesis
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Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas.

Ex: Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities.

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(Structures of Balance)

                     Climax
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Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance. Decrease = Anticlimax

Ex: Let a man acknowledge his obligations to his family, his country, and his God.

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(Changes in Word Order)

                 Anastrophe
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Inversion of natural word order.

Ex: Tardy to class he was.

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(Changes in Word Order)

                Parenthesis
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Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow.

Ex: Molly – and I’m speaking here from experience – can dunk on the best of us.

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(Changes in Word Order)

                 Apposition
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Addition of an adjacent, coordinate, explanatory element, called an appositive.

Ex: John Morgan, the President of the Sons of the Republic, could not be reached by phone.

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(Omission)

                    Ellipsis
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Omission of a word or words readily implied by context.

Ex: And he to England shall along with you.

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(Omission)

                 Asyndeton
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Omission of conjunctions between a series of words or clauses.

Ex: The infantry plodded forward, the tanks rattled into position, the big guns turned their snouts to the hills.

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(Repetition)

                Polysyndeton
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Opposite of asyndenton, a superabundance of conjunctions.

Ex: This semester I am taking chemistry and English and algebra and government and art history and soccer and biology and sociology and physical education.

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(Repetition)

                 Alliteration
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Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.

Ex: …this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose.

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(Repetition)

                 Assonance
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Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.

Ex: I get shocked by the doctor at the hospital when I’m not cooperating.

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(Repetition)

                 Polyptoton
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Repetition of words derived from the same root.

Ex: Not as a call to battle, through embattled we are.

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(Repetition)

               Antanaclasis
                aka a trope.
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Repetition of a word in two different senses.

Ex: If we don’t hang together, we will surely hang separately.

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(Repetition)

                  Anaphora
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Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.

Ex: Will he read the book? Will he learn what it has to teach him? Will he live according to what he has learned?

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(Repetition)

                  Epistrophe
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Repetition of the same word or group of words as the ends of successive clauses.

Ex: The cars do not sell because the engineering is inferior, the quality of the materials is inferior, and the workmanship is inferior.

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(Repetition)

                Epanalepsis
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Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred as the beginning of the clause.

Ex: To report that your committee is still investigating this matter is to tell me you have nothing to report.

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(Repetition)

                Anadiplosis
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Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.

Ex: This treatment plant has a record of uncommon reliability, a reliability envied by every other water treatment in the nation.

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(Repetition)

                     Climax
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Repetition of the scheme anadiplosis at least three times, with the elements arranged in an order of increasing importance.

Ex: He risked the truth, he risked honor, he risked fame, he risked all that men hold dear, - yea, he risked life itself…

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(Repetition)

               Antimetabole
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Repetition of words, in successful clauses, in reverse grammatical order.

Ex: I know what I like, and I like what I know.

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(Repetition)

                 Chiasmus
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Repetition of grammatical structures in reverse order in successive phrases or clauses.

Ex: He labors without complaining and without bragging rests.