Test 2- Tropes And Schemes

Question 1

Juxtaposition

Answer 1

Placement of two things side by side for emphasis

Question 2

Anadiplosis

Answer 2

Figure that builds one thought on top of another by taking the last word of a clause and using it to begin the next clause

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repeats the first word in succeeding phrases or clauses

Question 4

Antimetabole

Answer 4

Repetition of words in an inverted order ➰

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas

Question 6

Appositive

Answer 6

Word that names a nearby pronoun

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

Leaves out conjunctions in a list or between clauses

Question 8

Polysyndeton

Answer 8

Figure that links clauses with a repeated conjunction

Question 9

Epanalepsis

Answer 9

Same word or phrase is found both in the beginning and at the end of sentences

Question 10

Epistrophe

Answer 10

Same word or phrase is repeated at the end of multiple clauses or sentences

Question 11

Parallelism

Answer 11

Use of same general structure to provide links

Question 12

Conditional

Answer 12

Use of the “if … Then” clause

Question 13

Declarative

Answer 13

Gives info and explains what is going on (strong verb)

Question 14

Exclamatory

Answer 14

Provides emotion/emphasis

Question 15

Imperative

Answer 15

Makes a command (often “you” is implied)

Question 16

Interrogative

Answer 16

Asks a question, placing responsibility on audience

Question 17

Hortatory sentence

Answer 17

Urges or strongly encourages

Question 18

Allusion

Answer 18

Reference to a generally well known thing (Shakespearean, mythological, biblical, historical)

Question 19

Analogy

Answer 19

Extended comparison between two unlike things

Question 20

Apostrophe

Answer 20

Direct address of a personified object or audience

Question 21

Irony

Answer 21

Contrast between what seems to be and what really is ( dramatic situational and verbal )

Question 22

Dramatic irony

Answer 22

The audience knows more about what is happening then the characters do

Question 23

Situational irony

Answer 23

An event is the opposite of what is expected

Question 24

Verbal irony

Answer 24

Words mean the opposite of what is intended

Question 25

Kairos

Answer 25

Rhetorical art of seizing the occasion, covering both timing and appropriate medium

Question 26

Metaphor

Answer 26

Figure that makes a comparison without using like or as. Usually describes with vivid language rather than try to explain something unfamiliar.

Question 27

Metonymy

Answer 27

Reference to something closely related to the actual subject, standing in for the object itself

Question 28

Paradox

Answer 28

An impossible pair that does point to a truth

Question 29

Synecdoche

Answer 29

Use of a part of something to represent the whole

Question 30

Understatement (litotes)

Answer 30

Force of description is less than one might expecting

Question 31

Inversion

Answer 31

Reversal of normal word order