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Schemes
Tropes
Schemes Examples
Tropes Examples
Rhetorical Terms and Sentence Structure
100
A change in standard word order or pattern
What is a scheme?
100
implied comparison between two things of unlike nature
What is metaphor?
100
•In the parade the Boy Scouts presented the colors, the band marched and the mayor rode in a convertible.
What is parallelism?
100
“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
What is apostrophe?
100
Classic Greek appeals to an audience
What are ethos, pathos, logos?
200
similarity in structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
What is parallelism?
200
figure of speech in which a part stands for a whole
What is synechdoche?
200
“Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?”
What is asyndeton?
200
"I'm a night owl, Wilson's an early bird. We're different species."
What is metaphor?
200
A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word--usually with an emphatic climax.
What is periodic sentence?
300
makes use of contrasting words, phrases, sentences, or ideas for emphasis of dissimilarity
What is antithesis?
300
deliberate use of understatement
What is litotes?
300
"It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking!"
What is isocolon?
300
“Child is father of the man”
What is paradox?
300
a sentence that expresses a straightforward, no-frills idea or action.
What is a telegraphic sentence?
400
A series of similarly structured elements having the same length; a kind of parallelism
What is isocolon?
400
an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth
What is paradox?
400
Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
What is antithesis?
400
“At midnight I went on deck, and to my mate’s great surprise put the ship round on the other tack. His terrible whiskers flitted round me in silent criticism.”
What is synechdoche?
400
An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea.
What is a cumulative sentence?
500
Deliberate omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses; listing
What is asyndeton
500
the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present
What is apostrophe?
500
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
What is ellipsis?
500
•"I cannot say that I think you are very generous to the ladies; for, whilst you are proclaiming peace and good-will to men, emancipating all nations, you insist upon retaining an absolute power over wives." (Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, May 7, 1776)
What is litotes?
500
A rhetorical term for a writing style that omits conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses (the opposite of polysyndeton).
What is asyndeton?