Literary Trope Flashcards
(24 cards)
Approving and commending a virtue, especially in the hearers.
A. Dyspehmism
B. Comprobatio
C. Effictio
D. Periphrasis
B. Comprobatio
The use of a corrective extension to a statement.
A. Correctio
B. Hypophora
C. Tricolon
D. Zeguma
A. Correctio
A roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking.
A. Antiphrasis
B. Periphrasis
C. Catachresis
D. Dirimens Copulatio
B. Periphrasis
Stirring others by one’s own vehement feeling, often for the sake of exciting anger.
A. Zeguma
B. Exuscitatio
C. Categoria
D. Merism
B. Exuscitatio
Saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is.
A. Antiphrasis
B. Zeguma
C. Adhortatio
D. Figurative Language
A. Antiphrasis
A dissuasive statement; usually in form of advice to one’s audience, discouraging them from taking inept actions.
A. Accismus
B. Dehortatio
C. Antanaclasis
D. Comprobatio
B. Dehortatio
Expressing a wish, often ardently.
A. Optatio
B. Effictio
C. Adhortatio
D. Merism
A. Optatio
A pair of contrasting words or phrases used to express totality or completeness.
A. Periphrasis
B. Merism
C. Correctio
D. Comprobatio
B. Merism
Raises a question and then immediately answers it.
A. Hypophora
B. Categoria
C. Merism
D. Effictio
A. Hypophora
Eliminating ambiguous meaning of a word or phrase by explicitly specifying explanation of such word(s).
A. Accismus
B. Literary Trope
C. Distinctio
D. Antiphrasis
C. Distinctio
The direct description of another person’s faults; exposing the negative acts or vices of one’s adversary.
A. Categoria
B. Exuscitatio
C. Tricolon
D. Figurative Language
A. Categoria
A verbal depiction of someone’s body, often from head to toe.
A. Optatio
B. Antiphrasis
C. Effictio
D. Accismus
C. Effictio
A series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses.
A. Tricolon
B. Hypophora
C. Dehortatio
D. Antanaclasis
A. Tricolon
A word or phrase is repeated within a sentence, but the word or phrase means something different each time it appears.
A. Distinctio
B. Antanaclasis
C. Antanagoge
D. Catachresis
B. Antanaclasis
To exhort people to do something presumably for their benefit.
A. Adhortatio
B. Hypophora
C. Effictio
D. Antanaclasis
A. Adhortatio
Using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways; one word to link two thoughts.
A. Zeguma
B. Comprobatio
C. Categoria
D. Accismus
A. Zeguma
A rhetorical term for coyness; a form of irony in which a person feigns a lack of interest in something that he or she actually desires.
A. Figurative Language
B. Optatio
C. Accismus
D. Correctio
C. Accismu
A derogatory or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one; opposite of euphemism.
A. Distinctio
B. Tropes and Schemes
C. Dyspehmism
D. Accismus
C. Dyspehmism
Mentioning a balancing or opposing fact to prevent the argument from being one-sided or unqualified.
A. Tricolon
B. Dirimens Copulatio
C. Dehortatio
D. Merism
B. Dirimens Copulatio
Two primary categories of figurative language:
Tropes and Schemes
Putting a positive spin on something that is nevertheless acknowledged to be negative or difficult.
A. Antanagoge
B. Categoria
C. Merism
D. Periphrasis
A. Antanagoge
A literary device that uses figurative language to create an artistic image by altering the usual meaning of words.
A. Dehortatio
B. Literary Trope
C. Periphrasis
D. Tricolon
B. Literary Trope
A language that departs from what speakers or writers ordinarily use in order to achieve a special meaning of effect.
A. Figurative Language
B. Catachresis
C. Literary Trope
D. Hypophora
A. Figurative Language
The use of a word in a context that differs from its proper application, often creating a mixed metaphor.
A. Zeguma
B. Tropes and Schemes
C. Catachresis
D. Antanaclasis
C. Catachresis
