Schemes

Question 1

Parallelism

Answer 1

the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in structure, sound, meter, or meaning

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

the occurrence of the same letter word or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Question 3

Consonance

Answer 3

the occurrence of similar consonants in close proximity

Question 4

Assonance

Answer 4

the repetition of a vowel sound in close proximity

Question 5

Tricolon

Answer 5

a rhetorical device that employs a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses

Question 6

Tetracolon

Answer 6

a rhetorical device that employs a series of four parallel words, phrases, or clauses

Question 7

Isocolon

Answer 7

a rhetorical device that involves a succession of sentences, phrases, and clauses of grammatically equal length

Question 8

Anaphora

Answer 8

a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses

Question 9

Epistrophe

Answer 9

a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the ends of neighboring clauses

Question 10

Asyndeton

Answer 10

the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

Question 11

Polysyndeton

Answer 11

the use of several conjunctions in close succession

Question 12

Antithesis

Answer 12

a rhetorical device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words or ideas that are the opposites of each other

Question 13

Anadiplosis

Answer 13

the repetition of the last word of a preceding clause

Question 14

Epizeuxis

Answer 14

the repetition of a word or phrase in immediate succession

Question 15

Epanalepsis

Answer 15

a figure of speech defined by the repetition of the initial word of a clause or sentence at the end of that same clause or sentence

Question 16

Chiasmus

Answer 16

a figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures, or inverted parallelism

Question 17

Anastrophe

Answer 17

a figure of speech in which the syntactically correct order of subject, verb, and object is changed

Question 18

Ellipsis

Answer 18

the purposeful omission of a part of a sentence

Question 19

Polyptoton

Answer 19

the stylistic scheme in which words derived from the same root are repeated

Question 20

Parenthesis

Answer 20

an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage, usually by brackets, dashes, parentheses, or commas

Question 21

Apposition

Answer 21

a grammatical construction in which a noun is modified by an appositive phrase set off by commas

Question 22

Climax

Answer 22

mounting by degrees through words or sentences with an emphasis on the high point or culmination in the series

Question 23

Anticlimax

Answer 23

a syntactical device in which a sudden and purposeful descent from the dignity of the subject occurs, usually in a series

Question 24

Symploce

Answer 24

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used successively at the beginning of two or more clauses and another word or phrase is used at the end of the clauses (epistrophe and anaphora)

Question 25

Tmesis

Answer 25

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is separated into two parts, with other words interrupting between them