Tropes & Schemes Flashcards
Trope
Use of a word, phrase or image in a way not intended by its normal signification
Scheme
A change in standard word order or pattern
Collectively they are known as??
figures of speech
Anaphora
scheme
same word of phrase is used repeatedly at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
Ex: I will fight for you. I will fight to save social security..etc.
Anastrophe
Scheme
Normal word order changed for emphasis
example: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
Antihesis
Scheme
Makes use of contrasting words, phrases, sentences, or ideas for emphasis, usually in a paralell structure.
ex: Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities.
Apostrophe
Scheme
Person or abstract quality is directly addressed whether present or not.
Ex:Freedom, you are a beguiling mistress!
Epistrophe
Scheme
Same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases.
ex:I believe we should fight for justice. You believe we should fight for justice. Why not then, should we fight for justice?
Hyperbole
Trope
exaggerated words or ideals used for emphasis and not to be taken literally.
Ex: I have told you a million times….
Irony
Trope
word or phrase used to mean the opposite of its literal meaning.
ex: I just love scrubbing the floor.
Litotes
Trope
Deliberate statement for emphasis
ex:observer of young lovers kissing says “ I think they like each other”
Metaphor
trope
Word or phrase is transferred from its literal meaning to stand for something else. Something is something else..
ex:Debt is a bottomless sea
Metonymy
Trope
substitutes an associated word for one that is meant.
ex: Using top brass to refer to military offices.
Oxymoron
Trope
Connect two contradictory terms
Ex: He is a cheerful pessimist.
Periphrasis
Trope
substitute of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper noun.
Ex: Big man upstairs = God
Personification
Trope
Human qualities or abilities attributed to abstractions or inanimate objects
Ex:Integrity thumbs its nose at pomposity
Pun
A play on words which a homophone is repeated but used in a different sense.
Ex: She is always game for any game.
Rhetorical Question
Trope
when one asks a lead question
Ex:with all the violence on tv is it any wonder that kids bring guns to school?
Simile
Trope
comparison between two things using like or as.
ex: Her eyes were as blue as a robin’s egg.
Synecdoche
Trope
part stands for a whole.
ex: He got a new set of wheels
Zeugma
trope
one verb governs several words, or clauses each in a different sense.
ex: he stiffened his drink and his spine.
