Try Your Luck at Matching Schemes for the AP Test

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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.