What Are Figures of Speech?
Figures Of speech are the fantastic little
quirks in Our language that make writing
interesting. Typically divided into
types—tropes a nd schemes—figures of
speech are structural and content-driven
stylistic choices that add character and
clariw to the way readers interpret writing.
llnat Are Tropes?
Tropes are figures of speech that deviate
in some way from the literal or ordinary
meaning of words and phrases. YouVe
probably heard ofthings like metaphors
and similes—these are of the marv
tropes you have at your disposal to
enhance complexity, interest, and literary
allusion to your writing.
What Are Schemes?
Schemes are rhetorical adjustments to
writing that make textread more smoothly
and even sound more persuasive. Schemes
deal with the Structure of your sentences
and where you mition words and clauses,
Why Shotid I Care?
If the purposes Of writing are to engage
your readers, help them understand, and
persuade them. then you need know
the tools atyour disposal to be all three of
those things: engaging, comprehensible,
and persuasive. Beyond the basic ability
to use grammar correctty, the figures Of
speech are among your most valuable
tools to becoming a fantastic writer
Periodic Table of the
Figures of Speech
Behind the facade of any good writ is a figure of speech to complement it.
Metaphor
sy
Synecdoche
An
Anthimeria
Irony
Polysyndeton
Tropes
My
Metonymy
Periphrasis
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Personification Antanaclasis
Paronomasia
38
Paradc«
Assonance
Parallelism
Polyptoton
Antithesis
Antanaclasisa
Climax
Anaphora
Anastrophe
Epistrophe
Parenthesis
Epanalepsis
Apposition
Anadiplosis
syll is
Asynd eton
39
Antimetabole
Simile
Onomato ia
Brachylogia
Chiasmus
& Puns
9 Forming a a sound
Penpnrasis:
noun to
for of the phraæ
nt/ unde "tate mt
12, E•ageratnn forehea
Wiftantthan me ten impEes
Litotes
use of a to sonething
disptcwtionatelygreater man Lern implies
16 Quet/On: ASkjng a question a
man to an
17. a 01 the
meaning
IS side bysde
Contradictory phræe that contains
rr.e.ynre ot trutn
Schemes
Sin-"IEHityin stmCture
worOsaMpnrases
21 Ideas
22 in of
h: r easing
Word Order
Anastropf* of natural
24 of tern', or pnraæ, that
interrupt natural
25. Apmton; AOäition of rectos to Qantv or eat•arate
"hat
Omission/lnclusion
28 of
29 c' conjunctions
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