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Schemes Of Construction Flashcards

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Antithesis

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Phrases that are opposite/strongly contrast each other.

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Apostrophe

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Referring to a specific person of thing.

Oh happy dagger! Blah blah blah…

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Appositive

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Explaining someone/thing

Juliet, the crazy girl, tried to kill herself.

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4
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Chiasmus

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2 clauses in reverse structure (inverted parallelism)

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Parenthesis

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Break in sentence

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Paradox

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Contradiction revealing larger truth

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Solecism

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Grammatical mistake

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Syllogism

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Form of reasoning

Conclusion drawn from previous conclusions

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Anthimeria

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Verbing a noun

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