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APTropes and Schemes

Rhetorical language for analysis

QuestionAnswer
Alliteration repetition of the same consonant sound
Ambiguity more than one interpretation possible
Anaphora first word or words in a series of phrases or clauses is repeated
Antimetabole repetition of words in reverse order
Asyndeton omission of conjunctions
Antithesis contrasting ideas in a balanced construction
Allusion reference to something or someone famous
Archaic diction Language no longer commonly used
Apostrophe addressing a character who is absent
Cacophony harsh sounds
Chiasmus repetion of ideas in reverse order
Euphony pleasant sounds
Epistrophe ending a series of lines with the same word or words
Inversion the normal order of words in a sentence is inverted
Hyperbole a deliberate exaggeration to achieve a desired effect
Juxtaposition Placing two sometimes opposing ideas close together for the sake of comparison
Metonymy the name of a thing is substituted for a closely associated title or place
Metaphor comparing an abstract idea or unfamiliar object or place with something familiar
Oxymoron grouping together words of apparently opposite meaning
Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words or phrases
Personification attributing human qualities to inanimate objects
Pun a homonym is treated like a synonym
Zeugma when one verbs governs two different parts of the same sentence
Polysyndaton a conjunction used between a series of words, phrases, or clauses
Rhetorical Question a question not meant to be answered
Sarcasm bitter, caustic language meant to ridicule
Synecdoche a part of a person or place or object is meant to represent the whole
Synchises a balanced pair of phrases or clauses
Tricolon three clearly parallel elements in a series in the same sentence
Tautology a repetion of meaning using two different words
Created by: gswider
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