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Scheme is a figure of speech that changes the normal arrangement of words in a sentence's structure. In UNL, schemes are represented by the following attributes:
- Structures of Balance
- @parallelism: use of similar structures in two or more clauses
- @antithesis: juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas
- @climax: arrangement of words in order of increasing importance
- Changes in Word Order
- @anastrophe: inversion of the usual word order
- @parenthesis: insertion of a clause or sentence in a place where it interrupts the natural flow of the sentence
- @apposition: placing of two elements side by side, in which the second defines the first
- Omission
- @ellipsis: Omission of words
- @asyndeton - Omission of conjunctions between related clauses
- @brachylogia - Omission of conjunctions between a series of words
- Repetition
- @alliteration - A series of words that begin with the same letter or sound alike
- @anaphora - The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses
- @anadiplosis - Repetition of a word at the end of a clause at the beginning of another
- @antanaclasis - Repetition of a word in two different senses
- @antimetabole - Repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse order
- @assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse
- @asyndeton - Lack of conjuctions
- @chiasmus - Reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses
- @epanalepsis - Repetition of the initial word or words of a clause or sentence at the end of the clause or sentence
- @consonance - The repetition of consonant sounds without the repetition of the vowel sounds
- @polyptoton - Repetition of words derived from the same root
- @polysyndeton - Repetition of conjunctions
- @symploce - Combination of anaphora and epistrophe
