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In rhetoric, a scheme is a type of figure of speech that relies on the structure of the sentence, unlike the trope, which plays with the meanings of words.[1]
A single phrase may involve both a trope and a scheme, e.g., may use both alliteration and allegory.
Structures of balance
[edit]- Parallelism – The use of similar structures in two or more clauses
- Antithesis – The juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas
- Climax – The arrangement of words in order of increasing importance
Changes in word order
[edit]- Anastrophe – Inversion of the usual word order
- Parenthesis – Insertion of a clause or sentence in a place where it interrupts the natural flow of the sentence
- Apposition – The placing of two elements side by side, in which the second defines the first
Omission
[edit]- Ellipsis – Omission of words
- Asyndeton – Omission of conjunctions between related clauses
- Brachylogia – Omission of conjunctions between a series of words
Repetition
[edit]- Alliteration – A series of words that begin with the same letter or sound alike
- Anaphora – The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses
- Anadiplosis – Repetition of a word at the end of a clause at the beginning of another
- Antanaclasis – Repetition of a word in two different senses
- Antimetabole – Repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse order
- Assonance – The repetition of vowel sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse
- Asyndeton – Lack of conjunctions
- Chiasmus – Reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses
- Climax – Repetition of the scheme anadiplosis at least three times, with the elements arranged in an order of increasing importance
- Epanalepsis – Repetition of the initial word or words of a clause or sentence at the end of the clause or sentence
- Epistrophe – The counterpart of anaphora
- Consonance – The repetition of consonant sounds without the repetition of the vowel sounds
- Polyptoton – Repetition of words derived from the same root
- Polysyndeton – Repetition of conjunctions
- Symploce – Combination of anaphora and epistrophe
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ . Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. (Scheme, in poetry end rhetorics)
External links
[edit]- Schemes from Silva Rhetoricae