Tropes And Schemes

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Alliteration

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Repetition of the same sounds

Ex. Let us go forth to lead the land we love

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Allusion

Back 2

Brief reference to a person, event, or place.

Ex. command of Isiah

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Anaphora

Back 3

Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of phrases or lines.

Ex. not as to call to bear arms, though arms we need-not as a call to battle, though embattled we are.

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Antimetabole

Back 4

Repetition of words in reverse order.

Ex. Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country

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Antithesis

Back 5

Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

Ex. We shall support any friend, oppose any foe.

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Archaic diction

Back 6

old fashioned words

Ex. beliefs for which our forbears fought

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Asyndeton

Back 7

Omission of conjunctions between clauses or words

Ex.We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship

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Cumulative Sentence

Back 8

It build on the main idea at the beggining then adds on

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Hortative Sentence

Back 9

Sentence that ekhorts, advises, calls to action.

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Imperative Sentence

Back 10

Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat.

Ex. ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man

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Inversion

Back 11

Inverted order of words in a sentence.

Ex. Divided there is little we can do.

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Juxtaposition

Back 12

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize compaqrisons or contrasts.

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Metaphor

Back 13

Comparison between two unlike things without using like or as.

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Metonymy

Back 14

Using single feature to represent a whole.

Ex.In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course.

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Oxymoron

Back 15

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another.

Ex. peaceful revolution

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Parallelism

Back 16

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words.

Ex. Let both sides explore, let both sides...

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Periodic sentence

Back 17

The main clause is withheld at the end.

Ex.To that world assembly of sovereign states....., we renew our pledge and support.

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Personification

Back 18

Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea

Ex. with history the final judge of our deeds.

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Rhetorical question

Back 19

Figure of speech in the form of a question for a rhetorical effect.

Ex. Will you join in that historic effort?

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Zeugma

Back 20

Use two different words in a grammatically the same way but produce different meanings.

Ex.-bear arms/ bear burden