"Glossary of Selected Tropes and Schemes"
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| repitition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence | ||
| brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art | ||
| repitition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | ||
| repitition of words in reverse order | ||
| opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction | ||
| old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | ||
| omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | ||
| sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds 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 words that seem to contradict one another | ||
| similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phraes, or clauses | ||
| sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | ||
| attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object 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 |
