Schemes and Tropes AP

repetition of grammatical elements in speaking and writing

• parallelism

• antithesis

• parenthesis

• asyndeton

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect

• ellipsis

• alliteration

• antithesis

• parenthesis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

a word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it

• asyndeton

• ellipsis

• parallelism

• parenthesis

the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence

• asyndeton

• ellipsis

• anadiplosis

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

the omission from speech or writing a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues

• parallelism

• ellipsis

• anadiplosis

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

repetition of consonant sounds in neighboring words

• assonance

• anaphora

• alliteration

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words

• alliteration

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• assonance

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

• anadiplosis

• parallelism

• anaphora

• ellipsis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

• anaphora

• epistrophe

• asyndeton

• antithesis

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

repetition of the last word of one clause at the start of the next

• anadiplosis

• alliteration

• anaphora

• parallelism

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4