Tropes & Schemes

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Brief reference to a person, event, place, real of fictitious, or to a work of art

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases clauses or lines

Question 4

Antimetabole

Answer 4

Repetition of words in reverse order

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

Opposition, or contrast, of words or ideas in a balanced or parallel construction

Question 6

Archaic diction

Answer 6

Old fashioned or out dated choice of words

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words

Question 8

Cumulative sentence

Answer 8

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and the builds and adds on

Question 9

Hortative sentence

Answer 9

Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore or entreat

Question 10

Inversion

Answer 10

Inverted order of words in a sentence

Question 11

Juxtaposition

Answer 11

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to lexplain by comparison

Question 13

Metonymy

Answer 13

Using a single feature to represent a whole

Question 14

Oxymoron

Answer 14

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Question 15

Parallelism

Answer 15

Similarity of structure Ina pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Question 16

Periodic sentence

Answer 16

Sentence who’s main clause is withheld until the end

Question 17

Personification

Answer 17

Attributing a lifelike quality to an inanimate object

Question 18

Rhetorical question

Answer 18

Figure of speech in a form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer

Question 19

Zeugma

Answer 19

Using two often different words Ina grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings