tropes and schemes

Question 1

figures of speech with an unexpected twist in the meaning of words

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trope

Question 2

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable ex. success is a ladder

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metaphor

Question 3

When something is like something else. Ex: her skin was like alabaster

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simile

Question 4

Using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea. Ex: crown for royalty

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metonymy

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Using a part of a physical object to represent the whole object. Ex: Twenty eyes watched our every move

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Synecdoche

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twisting the meaning of words, creating a humorous effect. Ex. ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man

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Puns (Paronomasia)

Question 7

Artfully using one verb with two or more different objects. Ex: If we don’t hang together, we shall hang separately

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Zeugma

Question 8

a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses. Ex: caught the train and a bad cold

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Syllepsis

Question 9

Giving human qualities to inanimate objects. ex: The ground thirsts for rain

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Personification

Question 10

inanimate object gains the ability to speak

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Prosopopeia

Question 11

Addressing someone or some personified abstraction that is not physically present. Ex: Oh, Death, be not proud

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Apostrophe

Question 12

Asking a rhetorical question to the reader as a transition or as a thought-provoking tool before proceeding. Ex: What should honest citizens do?

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Erotema

Question 13

Words that sounds like what they mean. Ex: Buzz, click, rattle

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Onomatapoeia

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Exaggeration. Ex: His thundering shout could split rocks

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Hyperbole

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Understatement (opposite of exaggeration) Ex: I was somewhat worried when the psychopath ran towards me with a chainsaw

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Meiosis

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Using a different part of speech to act as another, such as a verb for a noun, or a noun for a verb, or an adjective as a verb. Ex: Gift him with Sports Illustrated magazine for Christmas

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Anthimeria

Question 17

A completely impossible figure of speech. Ex: The tears falling from her eyes were so sad they too began to cry with her

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Catachresis

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Mixing one type of sensory input with another in an impossible way, such as speak of how a color sounds, or how a smell looks Ex: The scent of the rose rang like a bell through the garden

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Synesthesia

Question 19

Talking about not being able to talk about something. Ex: It is impossible for me to describe how horrible it was to view the pink, runny mass.

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Aporia

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Breaking off as if unable to continue. Ex: The fire surrounds them while–I cannot go on.

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Aposiopesis

Question 21

Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense. Ex: Without laws, we can have no freedom

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Oxymoron/Paradox

Question 22

figures of speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than the meaning of words

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Scheme

Question 23

When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length. Ex: King Alfred tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable

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Parallelism

Question 24

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

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Isocolon Parallelism

Question 25

The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth

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Tricolon Parallelism

Question 26

Contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence. Ex: Evil men fear authority; good men cherish it

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Antithesis

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Inverted word order from what one expects. Ex: One ad does not a survey make

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Anastrophe

Question 28

Repetition in reverse order. Ex: One should eat to live, not live to eat

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Antimetabole/Epanados

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Taking parallelism and deliberately turning it inside out, creating a "crisscross" pattern. Ex: By day the frolic, and the dance by night

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Chiasmus

Question 30

Presenting alternatives in a balanced manner. Ex: You can eat well or you can sleep well

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Alliosis

Question 31

Omitting a word implied by the previous clause. Ex: The European soldiers killed six of the remaining villagers, the American soldiers, eight.

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Ellipsis

Question 32

Using no conjunctions to create an effect of speed or simplicity. Ex: I came. I saw. I conquered.

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Asyndeton

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Using many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect. Ex: This term, I am taking biology and English and history and math and music and physics and sociology.

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Polysyndeton

Question 34

Arrangement in order of increasing importance. Ex: Let a man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God.

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Climax (Auxesis/Crescendo)

Question 35

least important item appears anticlimactically in a place where the reader expects something grand or dramatic. Ex: Usama bin Laden is wanted dead or alive for mass murder, international arms smuggling, conspiracy against the United States, and two unpaid parking tickets.

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anticlimax (bathos)

Question 36

Intentionally misusing grammar to characterize a speaker or to create a memorable phrase Ex: We was robbed!

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Enallage

Question 37

Deliberately creating a sentence fragment by the omission of a clause. Ex: If only you came with me! If only.

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Anapodoton

Question 38

Intentionally breaking a word into two parts for emphasis. Ex: I have but two words to say to your request: Im Possible.

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Tmesis

Question 39

Misspelling a word to create a rhetorical effect. Ex: dog as dawg. Less important god as godlet

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Metaplasmus

Question 40

Adding an extra syllable or letters to the beginning of a word. Ex: All alone, I beweep my outcast state

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Prosthesis

Question 41

Adding an extra syllable or letters in the middle of a word. Ex: Gosh-diddly-darn-it, Homer.

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Epenthesis

Question 42

Repetition of a sound in multiple words. Ex: buckets of big blue berries

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Alliteration

Question 43

repetition of consonant sounds. Ex: Many more merry men

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Consonance

Question 44

repetition of vowel sounds. Ex: refresh your zest for living

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Assonance

Question 45

Repetition of beginning clauses. Ex: We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans.

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Anaphora

Question 46

Repetition of a concluding word. Ex: He's learning fast; are you earning fast?

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Epistrophe

Question 47

Repeating a word from the beginning of a clause at the end of the same clause. Ex: Year chases year. Man's inhumanity to man.

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Epanalepsis

Question 48

Repeating the last word of a clause at the beginning of the next clause. Ex: Talent is an adornment; an adornment is also a concealment.

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Anadiplosis

Question 49

Uninterrupted repetition, or repetition with only one or two words between each repeated phrase. Ex: Oh, horror, horror, horror.

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Diacope/Epizeuxis

Question 50

Repeating words at both the beginning and the ending of a phrase. Ex: Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they of the seed of Abraham? So am I.

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Symploce