| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Tropes are... | Metaphor, Simile, Hyperbole, Litotes, Personification, Metonymy, Synecdoche, Irony and Symbol |
| Metaphor | A comparison made between two things that are basically dissimular |
| Metaphor example | Richard was a lion in battle |
| Implied metaphor | does not directly tell us that one thing is another different thing |
| Implied metaphor example | Old age Superbly rising |
| Dead Metaphor | A metaphor that is used so much that it has lost it force |
| Simile | the comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| Hyperbole | an exageration that is used for emphisis |
| Litotes | something is said by saying the oppisite usually to make and understatement |
| Litotes example | She is not bad looking |
| Personification | and abstract thing or an intanimate object is given human charecteristics |
| Metonymy | replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else cloesly related to it |
| Metonymy example... | the pen is mightier than the sword |
| Synecdoche | substiting the part of something for a person |
| Synecdoche example | all hands on deck |
| Irony | the straightforwad statement or event that is determened by its context so as to give it very different significance |
| 3 types of Irony | Verbal Irony, Dramatic Irony and Situational Irony |
| Verbal Irony | speaker says one thing meaning but means something entirely different |
| Dramatic Irony | when the reader or audience perceives something that a charecter in the story does not know |
| Situational Irony | not a figure of speech it is a plot device, a charecter brings around an opposite result |
| Symbol | stands for something larger |
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