Halve Schemes and Tropes examples
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 apposition | The painter Copley was born in Boston |
| chiasmus | He labors without complaining and without bragging rests... |
| personification | Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. |
| metonymy | the king is reffered to as the crown |
| synechdoche | Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears |
| paradox | You can save money by spending it |
| anaphora | I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country |
| alliteration | Alice's aunt ate apples and acorns around August |
| litotes | Einstein is not a bad mathematician |
| oxymoron | Genuinely fake |
| consonance | some mammals are clammy |
| parenthesis | For the vagabond-voyeur (and for travelers voyeurism is irresistible), nothing is not for notice, nothing is banal, nothing is ordinary |
| irony | A lawyer gets sued |
| hyperbole | You snore louder than a freight train |
| pun | A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking |
| asyndeton | I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods |
| climax | The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe |
| onomatopoeia | Bang! went the pistol, Crash! went the window Ouch! went the son of a gun |
| metaphor | The Ferrari was a personal jet, set to take off before dawn |
| polysyndeton | Standing still, I can hear my footsteps Come up behind me and go on Ahead of me and come up behind me and With different keys clinking in the pockets, And still I do not move |
| rhetorical question | To actually see inside your ear canal--it would be fascinating, wouldn't it? |
| simile | Laughs like a hyena |
| zeugma | You held your breath and the door for me |
| parallelism | Live in your world, play in ours |
| anastrophe | Ready are you? What know you of ready? |
| antithesis | Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing |
| assonance | Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. |
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