Scramble: Tropes and Schemes
Unscramble this trope:
unPs - twists the meaning of words, often to create a humorous effect.
What is Puns?
Name this scheme:
Arrangement in order of increasing importance.
What is Climax?
Name this trope:
omitting a word implied by the previous clause.
What is Ellipsis?
When something is something else.
What is Metaphor?
Unscramble this trope:
mileiS - When something is like something else.
What is Simile?
Name this scheme:
Contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence. It can be a contrast of opposites. Or it can be a contrast of degree.
What is Antithesis?
Name this trope:
Talking about not being able to talk about something.
What is Aporia?
Exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
Unscramble this Scheme:
lelisParmal - When writers establish similar patterns of grammatical structure and length.
What is Parallelism?
Name this scheme:
taking parallelism and deliberately turning it inside out, creating a "Crisscross" pattern.
What is Chiasmus?
Name this trope:
Mixing one type of sensory input with another in an impossible way, such as speaking of how color sounds, or how a smell looks.
What is Synesthesia?
Giving human qualities to an inanimate object.
What is Personification?
Unscramble this Scheme:
lisoisAl - Presenting alternatives in a balanced manner.
What is Alliosis?
Name this scheme:
Deliberately creating a sentence fragment by the omission of a clause.
What is Anapodoton?
Name this trope:
Breaking off as if unable to continue.
What is Aposiopesis?
Words that sound like what they mean.
What is Onomatapoeia?
Unscramble this trope & scheme:
1. ydneceochS - Using a part of a physical object to represent the whole object.
2. boletimetanA - Repetition in reverse order.
What is Synecdoche and Antimetabole?
Name this scheme:
Misspelling a word to create a rhetorical effect.
What is Metaplasmus?
Name this trope:
Asking a rhetorical question to the reader as a transition or as a thought-provoking tool before proceeding.
What is Erotema?
Using contradictions in a manner that oddly makes sense.
What is Oxymoron?