Schemes and Tropes

"When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May."

• antithesis

• parallelism

• chiamus

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The cow jumped over the moon, walked across a rainbow, stepped into the stardust, and traveled across my dreams.

• Parallelism

• Asyndeton

• Antithesis

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

“And they always slept better with blades beneath their beds.”

― Cinda Williams Chima, The Warrior Heir

• alliteration

• chiamus

• parallelism

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief?; That is hot ice, and wondrous strange snow!; How shall we find the concord of this discord? - A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

• Juxtaposition

• Paradox

• Litotes

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"This city now doth, like a garment, wear

The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,"

from "Composed upon Westminster Bridge September 3, 1802" by William Wordsworth

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Irony

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rhetorical Question

• Juxtaposition

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

“What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.” – George Bernard Shaw

• Paradox

• Juxtaposition

• Rhetorical question

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Choose the best alliteration definition:

• The repetition of vowel sounds in close proximity.
• The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of nearby words.
• The repetition of consonant sounds in unstressed syllables.

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

Fleet feet sweep by sleeping Greeks.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.4