Tropes and Schemes II Flashcards
Symploce
A combination of anaphora and epistrophe (scheme)
Antithesis
The position of two opposite elements in parallel structure (scheme)
Aposiopesis
A deliberate pause in a sentence, often trailing off with an ellipsis or dash (trope)
Anadiplosis
The repetition of a grammatical element at the ending of a clause at the beginning of the next clause (scheme)
Epanalepsis
The repetition of a grammatical element at the beginning of a clause at the ending of the next clause (scheme)
Epizeuxis
The repetition of a word several times (scheme)
Chiasmus
Anadiplosis plus epanalepsis (scheme)
Meiosis
An understatement that makes something quite serious much less than it is (trope)
Paralipsis
A deliberate passing-over of a subject or topic (trope)
Litotes
An understatement with irony in which the affirmative is expressed with the negation of a statement contrary to the affirmative (trope)
Anastrophe
A syntactic inversion of the normal order of grammatical elements (scheme)
Polyptoton
The repetition of a root word taking the form of multiple different words (trope)
Anthimeria
The use of a word as if it had a different part of speech (trope)
Periphrasis
The roundabout statement of a simple declaration (trope)
Ellipsis
The omission of a words or series of words (trope)
