Rhetorics of Style
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Schemes

Reading for rhetorical figures: Schemes
Schemes of balance: 
 
Parallelism: the presentation of two or more ideas of equal importance using a similar grammatical structure.
 
Isocolon: grammatically parallel presentation of two ideas of equal length
 
Antithesis: contrasting words or phrases placed side by side in parallel structure
 
Chiasmus: Grammatical structure repeated in inverted order in second half of a sentence, where the first half has two parts
 
Schemes of emphasis:
 
Zeugma (as ellipses): using a single noun or verb with several verbs or nouns
 
Asyndeton: succession of phrases or clauses without connective conjunctions
 
Polysyndeton: succession of phrases or clauses connected with conjunctions
 
Anastrophe: inverted word order. “Let’s speak of all things literary”
 
Schemes of repetition and restatement:
 
Anaphora: First word of successive clauses or sentences repeated
 
Epistrophe: Last word of successive clauses or sentences repeated
 
Symploche: First and last words of a clause or sentence repeated
 
Anadiplosis: word that ends clause/sentence begins next
 
Conduplicatio: beginning a clause/sentence with key word from previous
 
Antimetabole: Two terms of the first half of a sentence are repeated in the last half in inverted order: AB:BA
 
Parentheses: Word, phrase, or clause inserted as an aside in the middle of a sentence
 
Ploche: repetition of same word with different senses
 
Polyptoton: repetition of different forms of same word: “Your inventory is made up of all the things you have already invented”
 
Climax: presentation of ideas in increasing order of importance
 
Schemes of transition:
 
Metabasis: transitionary summary that recaps what came before and hints at what is to come
 
Procatalepsis: heading off objections in advance
 
Analepsis: flashback
 
Metalepsis: attributing present effect to a distant cause (“the butterfly effect”)

Reading for rhetorical figures of thought
​(speech act)


​Aporia: an anomaly


Apostrophe: addressing a person or object not present

Erotema: rhetorical question

Hypophora: asking and answering questions

Interpellatio: calling or hailing the audience to take up a specific role in relation to the speaker

Licentia: speaking truth to power

Obsecractio: the pleading request

Partitio: separating out members of the audience

Subiectio: a mock dialogue ​​​
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  • Syllabus
    • Course Goals
    • Course Policies
  • Schedule_spring23
  • Assignments
    • Unit 1 Assignment
    • Unit 2 Assignment
    • Unit 3 Assignment
    • Readings
  • Resources
    • Copy, Unwrite, Emulate >
      • Preparing to Emulate
      • A Sample
    • Controlling Value
    • Topics
    • Figures of Speech and Thought
    • Tropes
    • Schemes >
      • Samples
    • Compendia