Tropes Flashcards by Mumtaz Abdulhussein | Brainscape

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Simile

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Like or as

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Synecdoche

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Part represents whole

Orlando won by 7 => orlando’s basketball team

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Metonymy

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Attribute for the thing

Suit = business executive

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Pun

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Paranomasia: suggests two or more meanings

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Syllepsis

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1 verb used for 2 nouns

Sleep in sadness and the city

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Periphrasis

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Speaking in an indirect way

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Personification

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Human like qualifies to not human thing

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Onomatopoeia

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Word imitates sound

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Oxymoron

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2 opposite ideas combined

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Synesthesia

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Appeal to multiple senses

“Loud colors”

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Metaphor

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Comparison

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