Schemes and Trope

Question 1

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.

Answer 2

Assonance

Question 3

A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!

Answer 3

Asyndeton

Question 4

Nothing can be created out of nothing

Answer 4

Epanalepsis

Question 5

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Answer 5

Chiasmus

Question 6

Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember and remember everything they don’t want to forget.

Answer 6

Antimetabole

Question 7

…you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.

Answer 7

Anadiplosis

Question 8

The average person thinks he isn’t.

Answer 8

Ellipses

Question 9

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

Answer 9

Epistrophe

Question 10

Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.

Answer 10

Anaphora

Question 11

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Answer 11

Anastrophe

Question 12

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,…

Answer 12

Apposition

Question 13

We’ve seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -in English, Hebrew and Arabic.

Answer 13

Parallelism

Question 14

To err is human; to forgive divine.

Answer 14

Antithesis

Question 15

In Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you’re taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing.

Answer 15

Parenthesis

Question 16

There is no end of it, the voiceless wailing, No end to the withering of withered flowers, To the movement of pain that is painless and motionless, To the drift of the sea and the drifting wreckage, The bone’s prayer to Death its God. Only the hardly, barely prayable Prayer of the one Annunciation…

Answer 16

Polyptoton

Question 17

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Answer 17

Climax

Question 18

Trope

Answer 18

Deviation in meaning

Question 19

Scheme

Answer 19

Deviation in order

Question 20

We really must lunch one of these days.

Answer 20

Anthimeria

Question 21

“I haven’t been bored one nanosecond.”

Answer 21

Hyperbole

Question 22

The speech entitled “The Importance of Punctuality” will be delayed for an hour because the speaker has not yet arrived.

Answer 22

Irony

Question 23

It was not entirely unpleasing.

Answer 23

Litotes

Question 24

Hope is the thing with feathers.

Answer 24

Metaphor

Question 25

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Answer 25

Metonymy

Question 26

Metaphor VS Metonymy

Answer 26

Metaphor creates association; Metonymy presupposes (assumes) it

Question 27

BOOM, WHISH, SLAM

Answer 27

Onomatopoeia

Question 28

Under the impression,’ said Mr. Micawber, ‘that your peregrinations in this metropolis have not as yet been extensive, and that you might have some difficulty in penetrating the arcana of the Modern Babylon in the direction of the City Road, — in short,’ said Mr. Micawber, in another burst of confidence, ‘that you might lose yourself — I shall be happy to call this evening, and install you in the knowledge of the nearest way.’

Answer 28

Periphrasis

Question 29

Dawn reached through my window and tickled my toes.

Answer 29

Personification

Question 30

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”

Answer 30

Rhetorical Question

Question 31

O my Luve’s like a red, red, rose That’s newly sprung in Jun

Answer 31

Simile

Question 32

His terrible whiskers fitted round me in silent criticism.

Answer 32

Synecdoche