Tropes

Question 1

Paradox

Answer 1

a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

the comparison of one thing with another thing used to make a description more emphatic or vivid using “like” or “as.”

Question 3

Metaphor

Answer 3

a figure of speech that directly refers to something being the same as another thing for rhetorical effect

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects, or ideas

Question 5

Oxymoron

Answer 5

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Question 6

Rhetorical Question

Answer 6

a figure of speech in the form of question that is asked to make a point rather than to elicit an answer

Question 7

Apostrophe

Answer 7

a figure of speech when a speaker addresses an entity absent from the scene, often abstract or inanimate

Question 8

Onomatopoeia

Answer 8

a figure of speech in which a word sounds like the sound associated with it

Question 9

Verbal Irony

Answer 9

a figure of speech is when what is meant is the opposite of the literal meaning

Question 10

Metonymy

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a figure of speech in which the name of an attribute or adjunct is substituted for the thing that is meant

Question 11

Synecdoche

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a figure of speech in which a part that is physically linked is made to represent the whole or vice versa

Question 12

Paralipsis

Answer 12

the device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing about a subject

Question 13

Litotes

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an ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary

Question 14

Hyperbole

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

Question 15

Anthimeria

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a rhetorical term for the creation of a neologism by using one part of speech in place of another

Question 16

Periphrasis

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the substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for the intended word

Question 17

Meiosis

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a figure of speech that intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is

Question 18

Aposiopesis

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a figure of speech wherein the sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished

Question 19

Auxesis

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a figure of speech that intentionally overstates something

Question 20

Prolepsis

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the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech

Question 21

Analogy

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a four-part comparison between two things

Question 22

Conceit

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an elaborate extended metaphor that carries on an entire text

Question 23

Paronomasia

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the use of a word that sounds like another

Question 24

Antanaclasis

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repetition of a word that has two distinct meanings

Question 25

Syllepsis

Answer 25

the use of a word that yokes together two other words