Schemes and Trope Flashcards
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free;
Alliteration
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
Assonance
A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!
Asyndeton
Nothing can be created out of nothing
Epanalepsis
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Chiasmus
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember and remember everything they don’t want to forget.
Antimetabole
…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.
Anadiplosis
The average person thinks he isn’t.
Ellipses
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Epistrophe
Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.
Anaphora
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
Anastrophe
Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,…
Apposition
We’ve seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers -in English, Hebrew and Arabic.
Parallelism
To err is human; to forgive divine.
Antithesis
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.
Parenthesis
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…
Polyptoton
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Climax
Trope
Deviation in meaning
Scheme
Deviation in order
We really must lunch one of these days.
Anthimeria
“I haven’t been bored one nanosecond.”
Hyperbole
The speech entitled “The Importance of Punctuality” will be delayed for an hour because the speaker has not yet arrived.
Irony
It was not entirely unpleasing.
Litotes
Hope is the thing with feathers.
Metaphor
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Metonymy
Metaphor VS Metonymy
Metaphor creates association; Metonymy presupposes (assumes) it
BOOM, WHISH, SLAM
Onomatopoeia
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.’
Periphrasis
Dawn reached through my window and tickled my toes.
Personification
“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?”
Rhetorical Question
O my Luve’s like a red, red, rose That’s newly sprung in Jun
Simile
His terrible whiskers fitted round me in silent criticism.
Synecdoche
