sentence syntax structure schemes
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- why do schemes exist?
- for rythem (pace) and emphysis
- parallelism
- using repititive gramatically similar structures to create and meaningful balance
- antithesis
- two directly opposed ideas
- juxtaposition
- placing items side by side for evaluation
- paradox
- self contradictory statement that provokes a reader to seek another context to find truth
- oxymoron
- contrary words put together to form an image
- listing
- list of examples or similar words
- transition
- linking words
- ellipsis
- words that are ommited but understood
- asyndeton
- purposeful ommision of a conjunction
- appositive
- phrase after noun that refers back and describes the noun
- parenthesis
- purposeful insterted parenthetical phrase or comment that breaks the rythem
- polysendenton
- purposeful insertion of extra conjunctions; functions to slow down rythem
- anaphora
- repition of same words at beginning of a sentence
- epistrophe
- repitition of same words at the end of a sentence
- antimetabole
- repitition of same words in succesive clauses in reverse gramatical order
- andiplosis
- last word/phrase/conjunction from the previous sentence becomes the first word/phrase/clause of the next sentence