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 |
AP Comp Tropes and Schemes
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