tropes and figures

Question 1

Having a roof over one’s head, all hands on deck, the united states have decided…

Answer 1

Synecdoche parts-whole (a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole (pars pro toto))

Question 2

Go green, wear blue, shall has decided.

Answer 2

Metonymy (substitutions with term chosen according to some principles association)

Question 3

Ol’blue eyers-> Frank Sinatra
La Divina-> Maria Callas
Saddam Hoessein was the Hitler of the middle east (George bush)
Im the scottish beyonce (lews capaldi)

Answer 3

Antonomasia (replcaing someone’s name with a description that highlights certain features or even with a comparison

Question 4

This class takes so long

Answer 4

metaphor in language (time is expressed in measures of length)

Question 5

The viruses loses its strength

Answer 5

inventend metaphor (a metaphor comes from another place, lexical field)

Question 6

Sarcasm (rhetorical effect)

Answer 6

Irony (opposite of the literal meaning of a phrase)

Question 7

I told you a million times to wash your hand before dinner

Answer 7

hyperbole (exaggeration)

Question 8

Thank you for sending me your book. I shall waste no time reading it.

Answer 8

Ambiguity (two meanings)

Question 9

That was not bad, not bad at all

Answer 9

Litotes (understatement)

Question 10

We should spent to get rich

Answer 10

paradox (a contradiction which can be solved)

Question 11

I will not mention that…

Answer 11

Paralepsis (saying that you are not going to mention it and with doing so mentioning it)

Question 12

Heerlijk, helder, heinkelken

Answer 12

Parallelism (where two thing are compared with each other (stress patterns: veni, vidi, vici))

Question 13

defending a general statement by pointing out particular instances (examples)

Answer 13

induction (argument)

Question 14

when we present examples in order to defend the existence of an individual occurance

Answer 14

deducation

Question 15

repitition of the same word or words at the end of a row of phrases or clauses i like it, im not gonna crack, i miss you, i am not gonna crack.

Answer 15

epistrophe

Question 16

repetition of words or phrases at the beginning in a group of sentences, clauses (i have a dream..)

Answer 16

anaphora

Question 17

combination of epistrophe and anaphora

Answer 17

strategic repetition

Question 18

Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for you country

Answer 18

antithesis (functional contradiction or contrast) (also antimetable)

Question 19

what are tropes?

Answer 19

the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image

Question 20

what are figures and schemes?

Answer 20

depend on form: word order or pattern. Durable syntactic frames or fixed and predictable structures.

Question 21

You can take the girl out of the country but you cant take the country out of the girl

Answer 21

antimetabole (inversions=omdraaien) repetition but no literal repetition of words.