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| 3580885350 | Tropes | Words/phrases/images used in a way that wasn't intended | 0 | |
| 3580885767 | Schemes | Change in the standard word order or pattern | 1 | |
| 3580886751 | Anastrophe | (s) (sister to chiasmus) Changing word order for emphasis. Ex: "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" | 2 | |
| 3580887797 | Apostrophe | (s) calling out to person/idea that can't respond, or directly addressed to an abstract idea. Ex: "Freedom, hear my call" | 3 | |
| 3580888404 | Epistrophe | (s) (sister to Anaphora) Repetition of phrases/words @ the END of successive sentences. | 4 | |
| 3580890146 | Hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, rhetorical question | Common Tropes | 5 | |
| 3580891809 | Irony | (t) Word/phrase used to mean opposite of literal meaning | 6 | |
| 3580892166 | Dramatic Irony | (t) The audience knows what the character does not - builds tension | 7 | |
| 3580892462 | Situational Irony | (t) Opposite of what you expect to happen | 8 | |
| 3580893040 | Verbal Irony | (t) Saying the opposite of what you mean Ie: sarcasm, puns!! Ex: I had a really good fish pun, but I forgot it. I'll just have to mullet over for a bit until I remember. | 9 | |
| 3580894907 | Anthropomorphism | (t) Giving animal characteristics to humans | 10 | |
| 3580895114 | Oxymoron | (t) Connecting 2 contradictory terms | 11 | |
| 3580895446 | Litotes | (t) Making direct understatement for emphasis | 12 | |
| 3580895447 | Susan Zhou | coolest cat | 13 | |
| 3580895793 | Emily Kaszyk | not cool cat hAA | 14 | |
| 3580898248 | Metonymy | (t) Substitutes an associated word for the one that is meant Ex: Military bands full of officers = "Top brass" | 15 | |
| 3580898745 | Periphrasis | (t) Substitution of descriptive word/phrase for a proper noun Ex: God = "The big man upstairs" | 16 | |
| 3580899492 | Synecdoche | (t) A part stands for the whole Ex: a nice car = "nice set of wheels" - Wheels stands for the entire car | 17 | |
| 3580900240 | Zougma | (t) One verb governs several words/clauses in different senses. Ex: "He stiffened his drink and his spine" | 18 | |
| 3580905759 | Antithesis | (s) placing 2 opposites together for emphasis Ex: Love is forever; hatred is fleeting | 19 | |
| 3580909059 | Anaphora | (s) successive repetition of word/phrase @ beginning of sentence | 20 | |
| 3580909970 | Parallel | Listing/structure is the same | 21 | |
| 3580910162 | Short Sentence | to accentuate a point | 22 | |
| 3580910377 | Long Sentence | Reflective in some way - ask what is the purpose of adding more detail? | 23 | |
| 3580912798 | Loose Sentence | The point is at the end of the sentence, more specific than Long sentences. Ex: After all this time, after all these years, we finally made it home. | 24 | |
| 3580913648 | Periodic Sentence | The point is at the beginning of the sentence, but still has modifiers. Ex: We finally made it home after all these years, all this time. | 25 | |
| 3580915877 | Chiasmus | Reversal of 2 clauses to create a balance (like an X visually) Ex: Never let a fool kiss you, or you kiss a fool. (shift in who does the action) | 26 | |
| 3580916699 | Asyndeton | Absence of "and" in a list | 27 | |
| 3580917270 | Polysyndeton | Multiple "and"s in a list | 28 |
