Style Analysis

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tropes

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meaning is altered from the usual or expected;
pun, metaphor, simile, personification, irony, hyperbole, synecdoche, metonymy, litores, oxymoron, paradox, rhetorical question, onomatopoeia

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schemes

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word order is altered from the usual or expected-
balance, word order, addition, omission, repetition, sound

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pun- types of puns

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T
a play on the meaning of words
1) repetition of a single word in two different senses
2) a play on words that sound alike but are different in meaning
3) use of a single word with 2 different meanings within the context of the sentence. (the ink, like our pig, keeps running out of the pen).

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metaphor

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T
an implied comparison between two unlike things

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simile

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T
an explicit comparison between two unlike things signaled by the use of like or as

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Personification

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T
attributing human qualities to an inanimate object.

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Hyperbole

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T
exaggeration; deliberate exaggeration for emphasis

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Litotes

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T
opposite of hyperbole, litotes intensigies an idea by understatement. (it wasn't my best moment)

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Synecdoche

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T
related to classification and division; one word represents a whole class; a part represents the whole (wheels- car, bread- food)

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Metonymy

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T
designation of one thing with something closely associated with it
(newspaper- press, king- crown, head of committee- chair)

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irony

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T
the writer takes on another voice or role that takes on the opposite of what is expressed. the speaker means something other than what is said.

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oxymoron

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T
contradiction; two contradictory terms or ideas used together

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paradox

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T
a statment that appears to be contradictory but, in fact, has some truth.
(he worked hard at being lazy)
(frank and explicit0 this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others)
(absolute seriousness is never without a little humor)

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onomatopoeia

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T
refers to the use of words whose sound reingorces their meaning.

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types of rhetorical questions

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(T)
1. Asking the reader- "What would you have done?"
2. Asking the writer- "Was it really what I wanted?"
3. Criticizing- "How could you do that?"
4. Asking and answering- "Why this happen? Well, it happened because...."

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Apostrophe

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T
turning away from your audience to address someone new- god, heaven, the dead, someone not present.
"Grandma, I wish you were here right now"

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Euphemism

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You substitute less pungent words for harsh ones with an ironic effect.
"the school master corrected the slightest fault"

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Balance

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SCHEME-
syntactic structure of each sentence supports its meaning. similar ideas are expressed in similar grammatical structure, or a series of ideas in climactic order.

parallelism
chasmus
climax
epanalepsis
antithesis
epistrophe
zeugma

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Parallelism

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S- Balance
expresses similar or related ideas in similar grammatical structures
(we mutually pledge to eachother our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor...)

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Chasmus

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S- Balance
grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words.
"ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country"

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Climax

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S- Balance
writer arranges ideas in order of importance
"I spent the day cleaning the house, reading poetry, and putting my life in order"

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Epanalepsis

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S- Balance
repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning
"power confronted power"

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Antithesis

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S- Balance
the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas
"our knowledge seperates us as well as unites"

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Epistrophe

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S- Balance
Repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses (opp. anahora)
"I'll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! I have sworn an oatht that I will have my bond"

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Zeugma

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S- Balance
1) when an object taking word has 2+ objects on different levels, such as concrete and abstract
"I thought you were going to cultivate matrimony and your estate in the country"
2) 2 different words that sound exactly alike are yoked together:
"she broke my skateboard and my heart"

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Word Order (Syntax)

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SCHEME-
deviation from normal word order signals emphasis

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Anastrophe

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S- Word Order
the word order is reversed or rearranged. "turning back"- usual word order is reversed

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Addition

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SCHEME- adding words or phrases to vary the style and draw emphasis

Apposition- Placing a noun next to anothe rnoun or phrase that explains it.
"John, my brother, is coming home".

Parenthesis: the insertion of words/ phrases/ a sentence that is not syntactically related to the rest of the sentence. uses dashses or parenthesis. "he said it was going to rain (I could hardly disagree) before the end of the game"

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Ommission

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Scheme- Words ommitted for emphasis.

Asyndention: Conjunctions are ommitted, producing fast-paced and rapid prose
"I came, I saw, I conquered"

Polysyndention- the use of many conjunctions has an opposite effect, it slows the pace

Anaphora- the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses
"we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields..."

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Sound

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SCHEME- repetition of certain sounds wiithin a paragraph or sentence

Alliteration: same sound at the beginning of successive words
"We shall not flag or fail"

Assonance- the repetition of sounds within words
"to pain no gain"

Consonance- words at the end of bverses in which the final consonants in the stressed syllables agree but the words that proceed them differ.
"A queitness distilled"