Go on. Explore!

lvl 0 • 0 xp

lvl 1

Home Market Decks Interests

Schemes

memorize.ai (lvl 286)

(0)

18 cards

()

Section 1

Preview this deck

Polysyndeton

Front

1 / 18

Scheme

0.0

0 reviews

5			0
4			0
3			0
2			0
1			0

Active users

All-time users

Favorites

Last updated

6 years ago

Date created

Mar 1, 2020

Cards (18)

Section 1

(18 cards)

Polysyndeton

Front

Deliberate use of many conjunctions

Back

Anastrophe

Front

The inversion of natural word order

Back

Asyndeton

Front

deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of words, phrases, or clauses

Back

Epistrophe

Front

Repitition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive phrases

Back

Antithesis

Front

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure

Back

Anaphora

Front

Repitition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive phrases

Back

Antimetabole

Front

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

Back

Climax

Front

arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance

Back

Epanelepsis

Front

Repetition of the same word or words at both the beginning and ending of a phrase, clause, or sentence

Back

Alliteration

Front

Repetition of initial or medial constants in two or more adjacent words

Back

Parallelism

Front

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

Back

Polyptoton

Front

Repetition of words derived from the same root

Back

Anadiplosis

Front

Repitition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

Back

Chiasmus

Front

reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses

Back

Ellipsis

Front

Deliberate omission of a word or of words

Back

Assonance

Front

The repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words

Back

Isocolon

Front

Parallel structure that occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length

Back

Parenthesis

Front

Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence

Back