This is a beginning list of Tropes & Schemes which it will be helpful to be able to recognize and use in AP English. Over time, I hope to add additional pages which further explain or clarify the terms below. However, you may also visit this website for definitions and examples of these terms and many others, which was provided by another AP teacher, Carter Hammond.
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Literary Devices/Tropes* (Taupe)
Allusion
Ambiguity
Analogy
Anecdote
Aphorism
Apophasis
Apostrophe*
Colloquialism
Conceit
Euphemism*
Extended Metaphor
Hyperbole*
Juxtaposition
Litotes*
Imagery (seven types)
Irony (three types)
Metonymy
Paradox (explain oxymoron)
Pathetic Fallacy*
Personification
Pun*
Rhetorical Question
Synesthesia
Synecdoche*
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Syntactical Structures/Schemes (Silver)
Alliteration, assonance, consonance
Anadiplosis
Anaphora
Anastrophe
Anthimeria
Antithesis
Aposiopesis
Apposition
Asyndeton vs. polysyndeton
Chiasmus
Circumlocution
Climax vs. Anticlimax
Epistrophe
Hyperbaton
Loose sentence
Periodic sentence
Parallelism
Parataxis
Parenthesis (& commas & dashes)
Periphrasis
Polyptoton
Predicate Adjective & Predicate Nominative
Zeugma
Amplification
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*These terms are "Tropes" in which the meaning is altered from the usual or expected.
