To begin with, rhetorical devices fall into two categories: schemes and tropes. Schemes involve the way words are organized usually signifying using words in a nonstandard order in order to gain attention.
Tropes, on other hand, involve your selection of words, specifically using words in unexpected ways, also to gain attention. While that's a useful distinction, a more practical set of categories for understanding rhetorical devices include linguistic vs. Anaphora: A scheme in which the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences.
What does trope mean in literature? A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. What is a anaphora sentence? Anaphora Definition In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect is known as Anaphora.
Anaphora, possibly the oldest literary device, has its roots in Biblical Psalms used to emphasize certain words or phrases. What is a scheme in writing? Parallelism -- When the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length. You can also combine parallel structures in unique ways. What is another name for the classical trope of Litotes or using a word or phrase to make a deliberate understatement? What is another word for trope?
Synonyms for trope analogy. Does trope have a negative connotation? Trope is the worst word in the world and you're a bad person if you use it. A compressed paradox. Paradox An apparently contradictory statement that contains a measure of truth. Kinds of Schemes Scheme: An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
Structures of Balance Parallelism Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. Isocolon A series of similarly structured elements having the same length. Tricolon Three parallel elements of the same length occurring together. Antithesis Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas often in parallel structure.
Climax Generally, the arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance, often in parallel structure. Change in Word Order Anastrophe Inversion of natural word order. Parenthesis Insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow. Apposition Addition of an adjacent, coordinate, explanatory element. Omission Ellipsis Omission of a word or words readily implied by context. Asyndeton Omission of conjunctions between a series of clauses.
Brachylogia Omission of conjunctions between a series of words. They represent a deviation from the common or main significance of a word or phrase semantic figures or include specific appeals to the audience pragmatic figures. Schemes: Phoneme-level level of individual sounds. Schemes: Word-level. Schemes: Sentence-Level. Rhetorical Devices Style is part of classical rhetoric and a number of rhetorical devices are worth considering in any analysis of style.
Schemes: Phoneme-level level of individual sounds alliteration the same sound is repeated at the beginning of several words or in stressed syllables of words that are in close proximity. F ire f rore f iddle, the F iend of the F ell T.
Eliot, Book of Practical Cats. Dombey and Son had often dealt in h ides but not in h earts. They left that fancy war to b oys and girls, and b oarding-schools and b ooks. Dickens, Dombey and Son. Br ea thing like one that hath a w ea ry dr ea m Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters.
G u n, dr u m, tr u mpet, bl u nderb u ss and th u nder Pope, Imitations of Horace. Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! Poe, The Bells. A wreathed garland of deserved praise, Of praise deserved, unto thee I give, I give to thee, who knowest all my ways, My crooked winding ways, wherin I live. Herbert, A Wreath. Forster, My Wood. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Shakespeare, Sonnet Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. There chiefly I sought thee , there only I found thee ; Her glance was the best of the rays that surround thee.
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another. Nixon, Inaugural Address. We meet tonight and part tonight. A special case of polyptoton is the figura etymologica which repeats two or more words of the same stem. There hath he lain for ages, and will lie Tennyson, The Kraken. Shakespeare, Sonnet — figura etymologica. A combination of anaphora and epistrophe, so that one word or phrase is repeated at the beginning and another word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences.
Eliot, The Rock.
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