Tropes and Schemes of Construction
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19 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure. |
| Parenthesis | Insertion of verbal unit which interrupts normal flow. E.g. " It was, as he said, awful." |
| Ellipsis | The omission of a word. Lettuce is the vegetable of a human and the shade of a fly. |
| Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of conjunctions "I came, I saw, I conquered." |
| Assonance | repetition of a vowel sound. "Blind, Dispised, Dying" |
| Anaphora | The repetition of the same word at the beginning of a sentence. "We shall win. We shall prevail. We shall get our rights." |
| Epistrophe | repetition of the last word. "We will prevail, she will prevail. They will prevail." |
| Anadiplosis | repetition of one cord at the end ad at the beginning. "this is common, common in english. " |
| Climax | arrangement of words in increasing importance. "The girl will get a B, her life will be over, and the world will explode." |
| Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse order. "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." |
| Chiasmus | The reversal of grammatical structures. "It is hard to make money, but to spend it is easy." |
| Polyptoton | repetition of root words "All to battle, though embattled we are." |
| Synecdoche | A part for a whole- ex: "Wheel" for "Car" |
| Metonymy | a symbol to represent the hole- ex: "the crown for royalty." |
| Anthimeria | the substitution of one part of speech for another. Shakespeare loved this. |
| Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration. "My head weighs 3 tons" |
| Litotes | a deliberate understatement. "Its a flesh wound" |
| Verbal Irony | the use of words to convey the opposite meaning. "I was overjoyed to go to school." |
| Paradox | an apparent contradictory statement that contains a measure of truth. "He is guilty of being innocent." |
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