Tropes

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

an implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common
-using “like” or “as”

Question 3

Synecdoche

Answer 3

a figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole

• genus stands for species
• species substituted for genus
• part substituted for the whole
• matter for what is made from it
• an “oblique” manner of speaking

Question 4

Metonymy

Answer 4

substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant
-similar to Synecdoche

Question 5

Pun

Answer 5

generic name for those figures which make a play on words

Question 6

Antanaclasis

Answer 6

repetition of a word in two different senses

-pun

Question 7

Paranomasia

Answer 7

use of words alike in sound but different in meaning

-pun

Question 8

Syllepsis

Answer 8

use of a word understood differently in relationship to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs

-pun

Question 9

Zeugma

Answer 9

like Syllepsis, but the single word does not fit grammatically or idiomatically with one member of the pair

-pun

Question 10

Anthimeria

Answer 10

substitution of one part of speech for another
-like using a noun as a verb

Question 11

Periphrasis

Answer 11

substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name, or a proper name for a quality associates with that name

Question 12

Personification or Prosopopoeia

Answer 12

investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities

Question 13

Hyperbole

Answer 13

use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect

Question 14

Auxesis

Answer 14

magnifying the importance or gravity of something by referring to it with a disproportionate name

Question 15

Litote

Answer 15

deliberate use of understatement, not to deceive but to enhance the impressiveness of what is said

Question 16

Meiosis

Answer 16

a lessening

Question 17

Erotema/Rehtorical Question

Answer 17

asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely

• effective persuasive device
• induces appropriate response from audience

Question 18

Irony

Answer 18

use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word

• conveys a “transferred meaning”
• related to topics of contraries or contradictions

Question 19

Paralipsis

Answer 19

pass over some matter, yet manage subtly to reveal the matter anyway

Question 20

Onomatopoeia

Answer 20

use of words whose sound echoes the sense
-associated with topic of similarity

Question 21

Oxymoron

Answer 21

yoking of two terms that are ordinarily contradictory

Question 22

Paradox

Answer 22

apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth