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Definition
100
A juxtaposition of contrasting ideas often in parallel structure
What is "antithesis"?
100
Asking a question and immediately answering it in order to demonstrate authority
What is "Hypophora"?
100
A deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the content
What is "Ellipsis"?
100
Erotema, hypophora, and epilexis are what?
What is "Schemes of Questioning"?
100
Epilexis
What is asking a question in order to reproach upbraid, rather than to elicit information?
200
An inversion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence
What is "parenthesis"?
200
Similarity of a structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses
What is "Parallelism"?
200
The repetition of initial or medial consonants or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables, especially stressed syllables
What is "Alliteration" ?
200
What scheme are parallelism, antithesis,and zeugma examples of?
What is "Schemes of Balance"?
200
What is the process of giving one idea less emphasis than another in a sentence?
What is "subordination"?
300
The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses
What is "Anaphora"?
300
A repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses
What is "Epistrophe"?
300
When more than one item in a sentence is governed by a single word, usually a word
What is "Zeugma"?
300
What scheme are anastrophe and parenthesis examples of?
What is "Schemes of Unusual or Inverted Word Order"?
300
A combination of words into phrases clauses or sentences
What is syntax?
400
An inversion or the natural or usual word order
What is "Anastrophe"?
400
A reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses
What is "Chiamus"?
400
A repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause often used to highlight a cause-effect relationship
What is "Anadiplosis"?
400
What scheme are ellipsis,asyndeton, and polysendeton examples of?
What is "Schemes of Omission"?
400
A sentence with the idea in the center
What is a "centered sentence"?
500
Asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting and answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely
What is "Erotema aka. rhetorical question"?
500
A deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses (or single words or phrases-brachylogia)
What is "Asyndeton"?
500
A repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order
What is "Antimetabole"?
500
What scheme are alliteration, anaphora,epistrophe, anadiplosis, antimetabole, and chiasmus examples of?
What is "Schemes of Repetition"?
500
A rhetorical device that involves a succession of sentences, phrases and clauses of grammatically equal length
What is "isocolon"?