Schemes

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Parallelism

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

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Isocolon

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A series of similarly structured elements having the same length.

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Tricolon

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Three parallel elements of the same length occurring together.

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Antithesis

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Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas.

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Climax

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Generally, the arrangement of words, phrases, clauses, in an order of increasing importance, often in parallel structure.

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Anastrophe

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Inversion of natural word order.

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Parenthesis

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INsertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow.

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Apposition

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Addition of an adjacent, coordinate, explantory element, called an appositive.

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Ellipsis

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And he to england shall along with you

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Asyndeton

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Ommision of conjunctions

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Polysyndeton

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Abundance of conjunctions

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonants

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Assonance

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Repetition of similar sounding vowels.

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Polpytoton

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Repetition of words derived from same root.

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Anaphora

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

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Epistrophe

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Repetition of the same word or group of words at 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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Epanalepsis

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

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Anadiplosis

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

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Climax

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

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Antimetabole

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Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.