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Tropes & Schemes
Mrs. McWhortor's: Semester 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Isocolon | Parallel Elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length |
| Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses |
| Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure |
| Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order |
| Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of conjuctions between a series of related clauses |
| Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions |
| Parenthesis | Insertion of some verbal unit in a position the interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence |
| Apposition | Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first |
| Ellipsis | Deliberate ommission of a word or of words which are readily implied by the context |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words |
| Assonance | The repetition of similar vowl sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words |
| Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses |
| Epistrophe | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses |
| Epanalepsis | Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause |
| Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause |
| Climax | Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance |
| Antimetabole | Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order |
| Chiasmus | Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses not involving a repetition of words |
| Polyptoton | Repetition of words derived from the same root |
| Metaphor | Implied comparison between two things of unlike nature |
| Simile | Explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature (often using "like" or "as") |
| Synecdoche | Figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole |
| Metonymy | Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant |
| Antanaclasis | Repetition of a word in two different senses |
| Paronomasia | Use of words alike in sound but different in meaning |
| Syllepsis | Use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs |
| Anthimeria | The substitution of one part of speech for another |
| Periphrasis | Substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name |
| Personification | Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualitites |
| Hyperbole | The use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect |
| Litotes | Deliberate use of understatement |
| Rhetorical Question | Asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely |
| Irony | Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word |
| Onomatopoeia | Use of words whose sound echoes the sense |
| Oxymoron | The yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory |
| Paradox | An apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth |
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