Tropes

What tropes does the following quote include: “If you will thank me,” he replied, “let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.”

• Second Chance

• Soulmates

• Forbidden Love

• Enemies to Lovers

Childhood friends refuse to admit their feelings but eventually do

• Enemies to Lovers

• Forbidden Love

• Friends to Lovers

• Soulmates

trope composed of over-exaggerated words or ideals, used for emphasis, not to be taken literally

• simile

• metaphor

• litotes

• hyperbole

a trope in which one states a comparison between two things that are not alike but have similarities... often with "like" or "as."

• irony

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• simile

a trope in which a part stands for the whole

• zeugma

• metonymy

• periphrasis

• synecdoche

repetition of the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences

• anaphora

• anastrophe

• apostrophe

• epistrophe

A trope in which one asks a leading question

• rhetorical situation

• assumption

• assimilation

• rhetorical question

A scheme in which a person or an abstract quality is directly addressed, present or not.

• apostrophe

• epistrophe

• anastrophe

• anaphora

a trope that connects two contradictory terms

• antithesis

• oxymoron

• pun

• sarcasm

a trope in which the opposite of what one expects happens

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• antithesis