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Rhetoric: Tropes

McWhortor- Rhetoric Devices: Tropes

QuestionAnswer
Metaphor implied comparison between two things of unlike nature
Simile explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature
Synechdoche 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 (autonomasia) substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name
Personification (prosopoeia) investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities
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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