Metaphor, Metonymy and Schemes Flashcards
His last suggestion heated up the debate.
Metaphor
He was as unpleasant as a venereal disease.
Simile
Earth felt the salt in her wound.
Personification
Lazy road; tired landscape
Epithet
Do not mix apples and oranges!
Set phrase
I’m reading Shakespeare.
Metonymy
Twenty eyes watched our every move.
Synecdoche
He’s a real Mozart.
Antonomasia
The pilot walked down the aisle, through the door, and into the cockpit.
Parallelism
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Antithesis
I am the way, the truth, and the life.
Climax
“Janet”, expclaimed the announcer, “you’ve just won a brand new set of pencils!”
Anticlimax
In his own thinking.
Pleonasm
This glove was stolen, he didn’t buy it.
Tautology
Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man.
Hyperbaton
Alone on a wide wide sea.
Epizeuxis
Will he read the book? Will he learn what it has to teach him? Will he learn what it has to teach him?
Anaphora
I’ll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.
Epiphora
Most true that I must fair Fidessa love, Most true that fair Fidessa cannot love.
Symploce
Blood hath brought blood, and blows have answered blows.
Epanalepsis
The crime was common, common be the pain.
Anadiplosis
Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances
Polyptoton
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.
Chiasmus
We lived and laughed and loved and left.
Polysyndeton
I came, I saw, I conquered.
Asyndeton
You can go…
If you don’t…
Aposiopesis
The Master’s degree is awarded by twelve departments, and the Ph.D. by eight.
Ellipsis
I don’t want to remind you of the situation that happened at the meeting last week.
Paralipsis
