Tropes and Schemes

Humans are given animal characteristics

• personification

• anthropomorphism

• zoomorphism

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

One substitutes a descriptive word or phrase for a proper noun

• personification

• synecdoche

• metonymy

• periphrasis

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

one verb governs several words or clauses, each in a different sense.

• zeugma

• synecdoche

• metonymy

• anastrophe

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

trope composed of over-exaggerated words or ideals, used for emphasis, not to be taken literally

• simile

• metaphor

• litotes

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

repetition of the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

• anaphora

• anastrophe

• apostrophe

• epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

scheme that makes use of contrasting words, phrases, sentences, or ideas (typically in a parallel grammatical structure)

• oxymoron

• antithesis

• pun

• irony

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

What the audience knows something a character does not

• situational irony

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A trope in which one asks a leading question

• rhetorical situation

• assumption

• assimilation

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A scheme in which a person or an abstract quality is directly addressed, present or not.

• apostrophe

• epistrophe

• anastrophe

• anaphora

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A scheme in which the same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.

• anastrophe

• litotes

• anaphora

• epistrophe

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4