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With These Schemes
Match the scheme with its definition, placing its letter
next to it:
1. ______
Parallelism
2. ______
Isocolon
3. ______
Antithesis
4. ______
Anastrophe
5. ______
Parenthesis
6. ______
Apposition
7. ______
Ellipsis
8. ______
Asyndeton
9. ______
Polysyndeton
10. ______
Alliteration
11. ______
Assonance
12. ______
Anaphora
13. ______
Epistrophe
14. ______
Epanalepsis
15. ______
Anadiplosis
16. ______
Climax
17. ______
Antimetabole
18. ______
Chiasmus
19. ______
Polyptoton
Scheme
Definitions
A. This
scheme repeats the initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words.
B. This
scheme deliberately omits the conjunctions (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So) in
a series of related clauses.
C. This
scheme places side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves
as an explanation or medication of the first.
This scheme allows for the insertion of additional information or
emphasis.
D. This
scheme juxtaposes contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure. It emphasizes dissimilarities and contraries,
producing the quality of aphorism.
E. This
scheme involves a similarity of structure in a pair of related words, phrases,
or clauses.
F. This
scheme repeats the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following
clause.
G. This
scheme uses an inversion of the natural or usual word order. This scheme can be an effective device for
gaining attention, though its chief function is to secure emphasis.
H. This
scheme repeats at the end of a clause the word that occurred at the beginning of
the clause.
I. This
scheme uses parallel elements similar not only in structure, as in parallelism,
but in length (that is, the same number of words or even syllables.
J. This
scheme arranges words, phrases, or clauses in their order of importance.
K. This
scheme repeats similar vowel sounds, preceded and following by different
consonants in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.
L. This
scheme deliberately repeats the same word or groups of words at the beginning of
successive clauses.
M. This
scheme repeats words, in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order Since the normal grammatical order is subject
verb, it starts with the verb followed by a noun.
N. This
scheme repeats the same word or group of words at the end of successive
clauses.
O. This
scheme repeats words derived from the same root word.
P. This
scheme reverses the grammatical structure in successive phrases or clauses;
however, it does so without repetition. It’s name means literally “criss-cross”.
Q. This
scheme deliberately uses many conjunctions (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So),
suggesting flow or continuity or special emphasis.
R. This
scheme deliberately omits a word or words that context readily implies.
S. This
scheme inserts a verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical
flow of the sentence.
