Tropes and Schemes

wendy R.
Key terms in the study of rhetoric.
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  1. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  2. anaphora
    repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses
  3. antithesis
    exact opposite
  4. apostrophe
    a mark used to indicate the omission of one or more letters
  5. colloquial
    characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
  6. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  7. epistrophe
    repetition of the ends of successive sentences, verses, etc.
  8. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  9. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  10. imagery
    the ability to form mental pictures of things or events
  11. juxtaposition
    the act of positioning close together
  12. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  13. metonymy
    substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
  14. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  15. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  16. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  17. pathos
    a quality that arouses emotions, especially pity or sorrow
  18. pun
    a humorous play on words
  19. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  20. zeugma
    rhetorical use of a word to govern two or more words
Created on Fri Jun 03 08:35:31 EDT 2011 (updated Fri Jun 03 08:45:19 EDT 2011)

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