WE will now take up SCHEMES as the second broad class of English figures of speech. They consist of four groups based on degree of deviation from normal word arrangements: structures of balance, changes in word order, omissions, and repetitions.

The structures of balance include parallelism, which draws power from the structural similarity of pairs or series of words, phrases, or clauses: 'How soon the flame of love can die, /How soon goodnight becomes goodbye...' (How Soon, Mancini and Stillman); the isocolon, a series of similarly structured elements of the same length: 'I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.' (Charles V); the tricolon, three parallel elements of the same length put together: 'Veni, vedi, veci'* (Julius Caesar); the antithesis, which juxtaposes contrasting ideas, often in parallel: 'Action, not words!'; and the climax, which arranges words, phrases, or clauses in decreasing importance, also often in parallel: 'One equal temper of heroic hearts, /Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will /To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield' (Ulysses, Alfred Tennyson).