3. WHAT ARE THEY USED
FOR?
Some say figures and Others say they make you
tropes are more for look deeper into the meaning
decoration. of a text and shape its
meaning.
4. DEAD METAPHORS
A figure of speech that has lost its force and
imaginative effectiveness through frequent use.
• “Legs of a chair”
6. METONYMY
A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of
one object or concept for that of another to which it is
related, or of which it is a part.
• Crown/Queen
13. The eliminating of the CATHARSIS
emotions or relieving of Oedipus the “T” Rex
emotional tensions, especially
through certain kinds of art, as
tragedy or music.
• When Oedipus Rex
discovers that his wife is his
own mother and the person
he had killed on the road
was his own father.
14. ONOMATOPOEIA
The naming of a thing or action by a vocal
imitation of the sound associated with it.
• Buzz, hiss, bang.
15. PERSONIFICATION
The attribution of a personal nature or character
to inanimate objects or abstract notions.
• The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
16. INFORMATION FROM…
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Bennett, Andrew, and Nicholas Royle. An Introduction to
Literature, Criticism and Theory. Harlow, U.K.:
Pearson/Longman, 2009. Print.
"Tropes and Figures." Wake Forest University. Web. 27 Feb. 2012.
<http://www.wfu.edu/~zulick/454/figures/tropesindex.htm>.