Sunday 20 November 2011

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Schemes and Tropes

Schemes and tropes both have to do with using language in an unusual or "figured" way:
Trope: An artful deviation from the ordinary or principal signification of a word. Scheme: An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
Examples
"I work like a slave" [trope: simile] "I don't know if I'm working my job or my job, me" [schemes: antimetabole, ellipsis, personification]

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