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AP Comp Tropes and Schemes

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Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence
Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art
Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
Repetition of words in reverse order
Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
Old-fashioned or updated choice of words
Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of a sentence, and then builds and adds on
Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action
sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat
Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)
Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison
Using a single feature to represent the whole
Paradoxical juxtaposition of wofds that seem to contradict eachother
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end
Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate oject or idea
Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer
Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings

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