Editing Figure of speech (section)

=== Schemes ===
{{see also|Glossary of rhetorical terms}}
Schemes are words or phrases whose syntax, sequence, or pattern occurs in a manner that varies from an ordinary usage.
* {{notatypo|[[Accumulatio]]}}: restating, through accumulation, already said arguments in a concise and forceful manner.
* [[Alliteration]]: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
*: Example: "She sells sea shells by the sea shore".
* [[Anadiplosis]]: repetition of a word at the end of a clause and then at the beginning of its succeeding clause.
* [[Anaphora (rhetoric)|Anaphora]]: the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
* [[Anastrophe]]: changing the [[object (grammar)|object]], [[subject (grammar)|subject]] and verb order in a clause.
* [[Climax_(rhetoric)#Anticlimax|Anti-climax]]: an abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintended) on the part of a speaker or writer from the strong conclusion that appeared imminent.
*: Example: "People, pets, batteries, ... all are dead."
* [[Antimetabole]]: a sentence consisting of the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in reverse order.
* [[Antithesis]]: juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas in separate clauses. 
* [[Aphorismus]]: statement that calls into question if a word or phrase is properly used to characterize a subject.
* [[Aposiopesis]]: breaking off or pausing speech for dramatic or emotional effect, often through the use of dashes or ellipses.
* [[Assonance]]: repetition of vowel sounds: "Smooth move!" or "Please leave!" or "That's the fact Jack!"
* [[Asyndeton]]: omission of conjunctions between related clauses.
* [[Chiasmus]]: two or more clauses related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point. subordinate class to [[antimetabole]].
* [[Climax (figure of speech)|Climax]]: arrangement of words in an ascending order.
* [[Literary consonance|Consonance]]: repetition of consonant sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse.
* [[Correlative verse]]: matching items in two sequences.
* [[Diacope]]: repetition of a word or phrase with one or two intervening words.
* [[Elision]]: omission of one or more letters in speech, making it colloquial.
* [[Enallage]]: wording ignoring grammatical rules or conventions.
* [[Epanalepsis]]: ending sentences with their beginning.
* [[Epiphrase]]: one or more sentences (typically of the author's understanding/expression of the issue) added to the end of a completed sentence
* [[Epistrophe]] (also known as antistrophe): repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses. The counterpart of [[anaphora (rhetoric)|anaphora]].
* [[Epizeuxis]]: repetition of a single word, with no other intervening words.
* [[Hendiadys]]: use of two nouns to express an idea when it normally would consist of an adjective and a noun.
* [[Hendiatris]]: use of three nouns to express one idea.
* [[Homeoteleuton]]: words with the same ending.
* [[Hypallage]]: a transferred epithet from a conventional choice of wording.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bernard Marie Dupriez|title=A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradius, A-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uff2N62Jx9wC&pg=PA213|access-date=31 May 2013|year=1991|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-6803-3|page=213|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107172724/http://books.google.com/books?id=uff2N62Jx9wC&pg=PA213|archive-date=7 January 2014}}{{cite book|last=Dupriez|first=Bernard Marie|title=A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uff2N62Jx9wC&pg=PA213|year=1991|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-6803-3|page=213|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107172724/http://books.google.com/books?id=uff2N62Jx9wC&pg=PA213|archive-date=2014-01-07}}</ref>
* [[Hyperbaton]]: two ordinary associated words are detached.<ref name="WilsonWauson2010">{{cite book|author1=Kevin Wilson|author2=Jennifer Wauson|title=The AMA Handbook of Business Writing: The Ultimate Guide to Style, Grammar, Usage, Punctuation, Construction, and Formatting|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g0cnr5SaMm8C&pg=PA224|year=2010|publisher=AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn|isbn=978-0-8144-1589-4|page=224|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205125237/http://books.google.com/books?id=g0cnr5SaMm8C&pg=PA224 |archive-date=2013-12-05}}</ref><ref name="CushmanCavanagh2012">{{cite book|author1=Stephen Cushman|author2=Clare Cavanagh|author3=Jahan Ramazani|author4=Paul Rouzer|title=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uKiC6IeFR2UC&pg=PA648 |date=26 August 2012|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-1-4008-4142-4|page=647|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103181052/http://books.google.com/books?id=uKiC6IeFR2UC&pg=PA648|archive-date=3 November 2013}}</ref> The term is also used more generally for any figure of speech that transposes natural word order.<ref name="CushmanCavanagh2012" />
* [[Hypozeuxis]]: every clause having its own independent subject and predicate.
* [[Hysteron proteron]]: the inversion of the usual temporal or causal order between two elements.
* [[Isocolon]]: use of parallel structures of the same length in successive clauses.
* [[Internal rhyme]]: using two or more rhyming words in the same sentence.
* [[Litotes]]: an understatement achieved by negating the opposite statement, such as "not too bad" for "very good", or "she is not a beauty queen" for "she is ugly", yielding an ironical effect.
* [[Onomatopoeia]]: word that imitates a real sound (e.g. tick-tock or boom).
* [[Paradiastole]]: A rhetorical device using euphemistic or mild language to avoid offence or harsh reality.
* [[Parallelism (rhetoric)|Parallelism]]: the use of similar structures in two or more clauses.
* [[Paraprosdokian]]: A sentence or phrase with an unexpected twist or surprise at the end.
* [[Paroemion]]: alliteration in which nearly every word in a sentence or phrase begins with the same letter.
* [[Polyptoton]]: repetition of words derived from the same root.
* [[Polysyndeton]]: close repetition of conjunctions.
* [[Sibilance]]: repetition of letter 's', it is a form of [[Literary consonance|consonance]].
* [[Spoonerism]]: switching places of syllables within two words in a sentence yielding amusement.
* [[Syncope (phonology)|Syncope]]: omission of parts of a word or phrase.
* [[Symploce]]: simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe: the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning and the end of successive clauses.
* [[Synchysis]]: words that are intentionally scattered to create perplexment.
* [[Synecdoche]]: referring to a part by its whole or vice versa.
* [[Synonymia]]: use of two or more synonyms in the same clause or sentence.
* [[Tautology (rhetoric)|Tautology]]: redundancy due to superfluous qualification; saying the same thing twice.
* [[Tmesis]]: insertions of content within a compound word.
* [[Isocolon#Tricolon|Tricolon diminuens]]: combination of three elements, each decreasing in size.
* [[Isocolon#Tricolon|Tricolon crescens]]: combination of three elements, each increasing in size.
* [[Zeugma and syllepsis|Zeugma]]: the using of one verb for two or more actions.