6. Tropes Flashcards
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What are tropes?
Expressive means, figurative us of language.
What do the tropes do?
- Deal with concrete idea/thing: “Thirsty mind”;
- Embrace the whole book: “War and Peace”;
- Create visual images: “the cloudy life age of the sky”;
- Create aural images by sounds: “<…> murmuring of innumerable bees.”
What do the tropes do stylistically?
- Brings out a message: “Farewell to Arms”;
- Symbol: “the roaring sea” (anxiety);
- Expresses the philosophical concept: “All the King’s men”
- Emotive/evaluative attitude: “The Peacelike Mongoose”;
- Describing characters: “The machine sitting at the desk was no longer a man, it was a N.Y. broker”
The forms of tropes (3).
Metaphor, simile, metonymy.
What is metaphor?
Dictionary meaning > affinity, similarity of certain properties < contextual/logical meaning.
Metaphor can appear as (1)___, (2)___, and (3)___.
(1) a noun
(2) an adjective
(3) a verb
Bring examples of verbal, adjectival metaphor.
Verb: “Some books are to be tasted” (vivid, symbolic meaning)
Adjectives: “Sleepless nights”, “dying flower”, “blue dream” (symbolic. The latter (blue) means sadness).
What are the components of metaphor? Describe them. Bring examples.
There are three components of metaphor: tenor (the thing being described), vehicle (the image/idea you’re comparing the tenor to) and tertium comparationis (the quality they share).
Ex.: “Time is a thief”.
Time - tenor, thief - vehicle, tertium comparationis - time stealing moments, opportunities, youth just like a thief.
What are the differences between metaphor and simile?
Metaphor uses/implies “is” and never uses words like “as”, “than”, “resembles”, “like. Only simile uses them.
Metaphor compares two unlike subjects with a common feature they have, while simile uses two similar subjects to compare.
What is explicit or embedded metaphor? Bring at least 1 example.
Explicit directly states that something/someone is something: “You are my sunshine”.
Embedded is less predictable: “The cash machine ate my card” (compared to an animal).
What is extended metaphor? Bring at least 1 example.
Which extends, develops throughout the whole poem or a few lines: “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes/The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes/<…>” (compared to a cat)
What’s anthromorphic metaphor? Bring at least 1 example.
It’s literally the same as personification: “O Moon, though climb’st the skies”
What’s mixed metaphor? Bring at least 1 example.
When we compare smth/someone and use more than one metaphors, it’s called a mixed one: “this is the virgin field, pregnant with the future possibilities”
What’s implied metaphor? Bring at least 1 example.
When it’s not directly mentioned that something/someone is something, but implied: “The city sleeps peacefully” (comp. to a sleeping human).
What’s trite/dead metaphor? Bring at least 1 example.
It implies the metaphors which got absorbed into everyday language, became neutralized. It’s time-worn an rubbed into the language: “floods of tears”, “a shadow of a smile”.
