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Tropes n Schemes
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English
11th Grade
11/01/2012

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Isocolon
Definition
Equal number of words parallelism
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Anastrophe
Definition
Changing the usual order of words (for cadence)
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Apposition
Definition
An additional detail at the end of a sentence
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Ellipsis
Definition
Ommision of words with ...
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Asyndeton
Definition
leaving out conjunctions
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Assonance
Definition
Sounds alliteration
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Anaphora
Definition
Repetition of a set of words at THE BEGINNING of a sentence
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Epistrophe
Definition
Repetition of a set of words at THE END of a sentence
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Epanelepsis
Definition
Repeating the beginning word at the end
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Anadiplosis
Definition
Repeating the last word at the next beginning
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Climax
Definition
aranging or words etc in order of increasing importance
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Antimetabole
Definition
Reapeating a clause in reverse order
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Chiasmus
Definition
B=Reverse structure of a
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Polyptoton
Definition
Repetition of the same root but different words
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Synecdoche
Definition
A part stands for a whole "Nice wheels" "the pentagon"
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Metonymy
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almost hyperbole but just exaggeration in terms of
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Antaclasis
Definition
Repeating a word in two different senses
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Paronomasia
Definition
A pun
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Periphrasis
Definition
Substitution of a word with a Proper noun associated with that word "Jim Crow"
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Litotes
Definition
Understatement
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