Scheme & Tropes

Question 0

The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrase of clauses

Answer 0

Antithesis

Question 1

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I lover Rome more

Answer 1

Antithesis

Question 2

A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole

Answer 2

Synecdoche

Question 3

I bought a new set of wheels

ABCs for the Alphabet

Answer 3

Synecdoche

Question 4

People he had known his whole life, he didn’t really know.

Answer 4

Anastrophe

Question 5

Inversion of the natural or usual word order (yoda talk)

Answer 5

Anastrophe

Question 6

I have nothing to offer but me blood, sweat, and tears.

Answer 6

Metonymy

Question 7

Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant.

Answer 7

Metonymy

Question 8

Insertion of some verbal unit position that interrupts the normal flow of the sentence.

Answer 8

Parenthesis

Question 9

Side not to a sentence.

Answer 9

Parethesis

Question 10

Repetition of a word in 2 different senses.

Answer 10

Antanaclasis

Question 11

If we don’t hang together we will hang separate

Answer 11

Antanaclasis

Question 12

Placing side by side 2 co-ordinate elements, the 2nd of which serves as an explanation or modification for the first

Answer 12

Apposition

Question 13

Mr. John, that eminent & graceful scholar, tripped & fell into a pile of readers Digest

Answer 13

Apposition

Question 14

Use of words alike in sound but different in meaning

Answer 14

Paronomasia

Question 15

Independence is what a boy feels when all he wants from his father is to be left a loan.

Answer 15

Paronomasia