Rhetorical Figures Midterm Quiz

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Trope

Category for the Rhetorical Figures - "turn" to a new meaning

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Scheme

Category for the Rhetorical Figures - "restructure" a sentence

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Metaphor

"the master trope" - a comparison made my referring to one thing as another

ex. Jesus is the rock of our salvation.

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Prosopopoeia

(personification) - Reference to abstractions or inanimate objects as though they had human qualities or abilities

ex. The sun smiled down on us.

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Anaphora

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines

ex. Life is short, life is fragile, life is precious.

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Epistrophe

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

ex. I'm tired of this job. I'm over this job. I'm done with this job!

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Polysyndeton

excessive use of conjunctions where they aren't necessary.

ex. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds

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Asyndeton

The omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm

ex. Live, laugh, love.

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Hyperbole

extreme exaggeration

ex. I could eat a horse.

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Litotes

Deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite.

ex. He isn't the friendliest person.

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Erotema

rhetorical question

ex. Are you serious?

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Epanalepsis

repetition at the end of a line, phrase, or clause of the word or words that occurred at the beginning of the same line, phrase, or clause. (ABCA)

ex. In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.

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Anadiplosis

The repetition of the last word (or phrase) from the previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next. Often combined with climax.

ex. The love of wicked men converts to fear,That fear to hate, and hate turns one or bothTo worthy danger and deserved death.

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Anastrophe

Departure from normal word order for the sake of emphasis.

ex. Troubles, everybody's got.

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Assonance

the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together.

ex. The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plains

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Consonance

The repetition of consonants in words stressed in the same place but whose vowels differ

ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

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Polyptoton

Repeating a word, but in a different form. Using a cognate of a given word in close proximity.

ex. Who shall watch the watchmen

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Paronomasia

Use of words alike in sound but different in meaning (pun)

ex. Can be very punny. trope

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Parenthesis

Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow.

ex. I am going to visit my grandma (my dad's mom) today.

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Periodic sentence

a periodic sentence is a complex sentence in which the main clause, or main point, occurs at the end of the sentence instead of the beginning.

ex. "To believe your own thought, to believe that is

what is true for you is true for all men, that is genius."

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Synecdoche

A whole is represented by naming one of its parts (genus named for species), or vice versa (species named for genus).

ex. He just got some new wheels!

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Irony

Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says

ex. The Titanic was touted as an "unsinkable" ship, yet it sank on its first voyage

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Apostrophe

Turning one's speech from one audience to another. Most often, occurs when one addresses oneself to an abstraction, to an inanimate object, or to the absent.

ex. O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!Thou art the ruins of the noblest manThat ever lived in the tide of times.

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