Definitions 1
A trope in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its literal meaning.
What is Irony?
A trope composed of exaggerated words or ideals used for emphasis and not to be taken literally.
What is Hyperbole?
A trope in which a word or phrase is transferred from its literal meaning to stand for something else.
What is a Metaphor?
A fire station burns down.
What is irony?
The snow is a white blanket.
What is a metaphor?
The use of a word, phrase, or image in a way not intended by its normal signification. Appeals to imagination.
What is a trope?
A scheme that makes use of contrasting words, phrases, sentences, or ideas for emphasis (generally used in parallel grammatical structures).
What is the Antithesis?
A trope that connects two contradictory terms.
What is an Oxymoron?
To err is human; to forgive divine.
What is an antithesis?
He looks like a fish out of water.
What is a simile?
A play on words in which a homophone is repeated but used in a different sense.
What is a Pun?
A trope in which the one asks a leading question.
What is a Rhetorical Question?
A trope in which one states a comparison between two things that are not alike but have similarities.
What is a Simile?
There's enough food in the cupboard to feed an entire army!
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean – roll!
What is an apostrophe?
A scheme in which the same word is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is an Epistrophe?
A change in standard word order or pattern. Appeals to senses (sounds).
What is a scheme?
A trope in which human qualities or abilities are assigned to abstractions or inanimate objects.
What is Personification?
Amazingly awful
What is an oxymoron?
Petruchio-"Here, Grumio, knock I say"
Grumio-"Knock, sir? whom should I knock? Is there any man has rebused your Worship?"
What is a pun?
A scheme in which normal word order is changed for emphasis.
What is an Anastrophe?
A trope in which one makes a deliberate understatement for emphasis.
What is a Litotes?
A trope in which one substitutes a descriptive word or phrase for a proper noun.
What is Periphrasis?
Boots on the ground—refers to soldiers.
What is a Synecdoche?
My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.
What is personification?
A trope that substitutes an associated word for one that is meant.
What is a Metonymy?
A trope in which one substitutes a descriptive word or phrase for a proper noun.
What is Periphrasis?
A trope in which one verb governs several words, or clauses, each in a different sense.
What is a Zeugma?
Can birds fly?
What is a rhetorical question?
She broke his car and his heart.
What is a zeugma?
A scheme in which a person or an abstract quality is directly addressed, whether present or not.
What is an Apostrophe?
A scheme in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What is Anaphora?
A trope in which a part stands for the whole.
What is a Synecdoche?
the pen is mightier than the sword
What is metonymy?
He isn't the brightest bulb in the box.
What is a litotes?