Tropes and Schemes

Alliteration

Repetition of consonant sounds in successive words

Anaphora

Reptition at the beginning of successive clauses or sentneces

Epistrophe

Repetition at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

Parallelism

Similar synctatical pattern in multiple sentences, clauses, paragraphs

Antimetabole

A “mirrored” sentence effect in which a sentnece or clause is reversed in a subsequent sentence or clause

Antithesis

Parallelism that creates a negotiation

Circumlocution

An idea that could be simply expressed is elaborately expressed

Climax

Series of examples with the final example being the most important

Hypophera

Answer your own rhetorical question

Juxtaposition

Two ideas/objects/whatever are compared contrasted

Rhetorical question

Question that isn’t meant to be ansewred

Zeugma

A single word or phrase is applied to two others in different senses

Polysyndeton

In a series, the use of no commas with an excessive amount of coordinating conjuctions

Asyndeton

In a series, the ues of commas without coordinating conjuctions (FANBOYS)

Irony

the contrast between reality and expectatoins

Simile

Comparison between two things using the word like or as

Pun

Humorous mixup of words or phrases tha tsound the same

Personification

Giving human qualities to non human things

Synechdoche

A part of the whole represents for the whole

Understatement

Deliberate de-emphasis

Hyperbole

Deliberate exaggeration

Metaphor

Compares two unlike things

Oxymoron

Two words next to each other that create an ironic contrast or opposition

Paradox

A phrase or statement that negates reality, that creates something that can’t happen