style quiz: schemes & tropes

footing

creating relationships between the writer and the reader - can be done through choices in articles, pronouns, prepositions, and more

anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses

anastrophe

inversion of usual order of words or clauses/switching the position of subject, verb, and object

asyndeton

purposeful omission of a word or phrase to take out a conjunction between phrases - this adds rhythm to a sentence while maintaining proper grammar

ellipses

omission of a word understood to be referenced from context

isocolon

rhetorical device that involves a succession of sentences, phrases, and clauses of equal length and structure - refers to an almost perfect repetition of similar grammatical forms

parallelism

two or more phrases or clauses that share the same grammatical structure

parenthesis

inserting a word, phrase, or clause into a sentence to comment on the subject

polysyndeton

the rapid repetition/overuse of conjunctions in a sentence or clause

anthimeria

turning a word from one part of speech to another (usually from noun to verb)

antonomasia

substituting a descriptive word/phrase for a proper noun OR using a proper noun as a generic term

hyperbole

an exaggeration within a sentence or statement used for emphasis

irony

saying something but meaning the oppositite

litotes

an ironic understatement in which a negative is used to assert a positive

metaphor

a figure of speech that ocurs when a word or phrase is applied to an object or action that is not literally related

metonymy

substituting the names of concepts/things that are closely related to each other

onomatopoeia

the use or creation of a word that phonetically imitates the sound that it describes

synecdoche

a figure of speech in which a specific part of something is used to refer to the whole