Schemes Definitions
A figure of speech in which two or more elements of a sentence (or series of sentences) have the same grammatical structure.
Parallelism
A figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. It is a type of analogy: a comparison between two things or ideas.
Metaphor
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
Antimetabole
My love is like a red, red rose.
Simile
Where Mrs. Lindgren went to college.
Wheaton
A figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences.
Anaphora
A figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things. To make the comparison, they most often use the connecting words "like" or "as."
Simile
We'll emerge, battered but beautiful.
Antithesis
We've braved the belly of the beast.
Metaphor.
A figure of speech that juxtaposes two contrasting or opposing ideas, usually within parallel grammatical structures.
Antithesis
A figure of speech in which one or more words repeat at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Epistrophe
A type of figurative language in which non-human things are described as having human attributes.
Personification
Man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
Anaphora
Hyperbole
A figure of speech in which successive words, phrases, clauses, or sentences are arranged in ascending order of importance.
Climax
A figure of speech in which a word or group of words located at the end of one clause or sentence is repeated at or near the beginning of the following clause or sentence.
Anadiplosis
A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker exaggerates for the sake of emphasis. These statements are usually quite obvious exaggerations intended to emphasize a point, rather than be taken literally.
Hyperbole
The big sycamore by the creek was gone. The willow tangle was gone. The little enclave of untrodden bluegrass was gone. The clump of dogwood on the little rise across the creek-now that, too, was gone.
Epistrophe.
History has its eyes on us.
Personification.
Figures of speech that play with the literal meaning of words are called...
Tropes
A figure of speech in which a phrase is repeated, but with the order of words reversed.
Antimetabole
They call for you: The general who became a slave; the slave who became a gladiator; the gladiator who defied an Emperor. Striking story.
Anadiplosis
Figures of speech that play with the order or pattern of words.