ENG 211 — Tropes and Schemes

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Tropes
The nonliteral use of language regarding meaning
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Metaphor
T: A comparison between 2 dissimilar things without using “like” or “as”
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Simile
T: A comparison between 2 dissimilar things with “like” or “as”
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Irony
T: Using language to say the opposite or something very different than what you mean
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Personification/Prosopopeia
T: Endowing human characteristics to nonhuman things
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Periphrasis
T: Substituting a thing or activity for a dissimilar thing or activity
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Metonymy
T: Substituting a thing or activity for a similar thing or activity
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Apostrophe
T: Talking to a person who is dead or not present, or an inanimate object as if it were a person
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Hyperbole
T: Unwarranted exaggeration
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Schemes
The nonliteral use of language regarding word order and sound
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Alliteration
S: The repetition of consonant sounds, often at the beginnings of words
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Assonance
S: The repetition of vowel sounds, often at the beginnings of words
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Parallelism
S: The repetition of words or phrases
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Anaphora
S: The repetition of the first word or phrase of a line; a subcategory of parallelism