schemes & tropes Flashcards
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figures of speech that are artful deviations from the ordinary arrangement of words
schemes
writing or speech with similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
parallelism
parallelism with same length (words, syllables)
isocolon
juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in a parallel structure
antithesis
insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence
parenthesis
placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first
apposition
deliberate omission of a words or words which are readily implied by the context
ellipsis
deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses
asyndeton
deliberate use of many conjunctions
polysyndeton
repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning(s) of successive clauses
anaphora
artful deviations from the ordinary or principal signification of a word
trope
an implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common
metaphor
an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common
simile
an extended or continued metaphor
allegory
a figure of speech in which a part stands for a whole
synecdoche
