Schemes and Tropes Vocab

Question 1

Parallelism

Answer 1

Balance, Repetition, Rythm

Question 2

Isocolon

Answer 2

Each line is a word _____ _____ _____ . That’s our motto. (each line is a one-syllable).
Ex: Draw, Learn, Join. That’s our motto.

Question 3

Antithesis

Answer 3

Although, Its not that, contrasting ideas

Question 4

Anastrophe

Answer 4

Yodaisms

Question 5

Parenthesis

Answer 5

Inserting authors voice

Question 6

Ellipsis

Answer 6

Mising of words because they are already implied

Question 7

Asyndeton

Answer 7

Little conjunctions in the sentence, more commas

Question 8

Alliteration

Answer 8

Repeating letters

Question 9

Anaphora

Answer 9

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the BEGININGS of successive clauses

Question 10

Epistrophe

Answer 10

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ENDS of successive clauses

Question 11

Epanalepsis

Answer 11

Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause.

Ex: I am not what I am

Question 12

Climax

Answer 12

Arrangement of words, phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance:

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

Comparison

Question 14

Antimetabole

Answer 14

Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order.

Ex: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.”

Question 15

Metonymy

Answer 15

Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant

Ex: The press, The church

Question 16

Simile

Answer 16

Comparison of two things using either “like” or “as”.

Question 17

Synecdoche

Answer 17

A figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole

Ex: “Wheels” Referring to a vechicle

Question 18

Anadiplosis

Answer 18

Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. Think Direct TV commercial.

Ex: If you give a mouse a cookie…

Question 19

Polysyndeton

Answer 19

The deliberate use of many conjunctions. Suggests flow or continuity in some instance, special emphasis in others:

Question 20

Hyperbole

Answer 20

Exaggerated statements or claims

Question 21

Antanaclasis

Answer 21

Repetition of a word in two different senses

Question 22

Paronomasia

Answer 22

Use of words that wound alond but have different meaning

Question 23

Periphrasis

Answer 23

Substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a phrase of a proper name for a quality associated with the name.
“The bright celestial body that gives light to the Earth” instead of “the sun.”

Question 24

Litotes

Answer 24

Deliberate use of understatement, not to decieve someone but to enhance the inmpressiveness of what is stated
“It’s not rocket science.”

Question 25

Verbal Irony

Answer 25

When you say something different than what you mean.

Question 26

Situational Irony

Answer 26

When the outcome of a situation is contrary to or different from what is expected

Question 27

Dramatic Irony

Answer 27

The audience knows something the characters in the story dont

Question 28

Paradox

Answer 28

A contradictory statement that contains a measure of the truth Two negatives equal a positive

Question 29

Epitet

Answer 29

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson