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  2. Trope (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Pun or paronomasia - A form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words. Antanaclasis – The stylistic trope of repeating a single word, but with a different meaning each time; antanaclasis is a common type of pun, and like other kinds of pun, it is often found in slogans.

  3. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men"). During the Renaissance, scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech.

  4. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  5. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Literature review: a summary and careful comparison of previous academic work published on a specific topic; Research article or research paper; Scientific: scholarly publication reporting original empirical and theoretical work in the natural or social sciences. Technical report; Textbook: authoritative and detailed factual description of a thing

  6. Scheme (rhetoric) - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, a scheme is a type of figure of speech that relies on the structure of the sentence, unlike the trope, which plays with the meanings of words. [ 1 ] A single phrase may involve both a trope and a scheme, e.g., may use both alliteration and allegory .

  7. Literature review - Wikipedia

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    A literature review is an overview of previously published works on a particular topic. The term can refer to a full scholarly paper or a section of a scholarly work such as books or articles. Either way, a literature review provides the researcher/author

  8. Literary topos - Wikipedia

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    Some examples of topoi are the following: the locus amoenus (for example, the imaginary world of Arcadia) and the locus horridus (for example, Dante's Inferno);; the idyll ...

  9. Talk:Trope (literature) - Wikipedia

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    This article (trope (literature)) and trope (linguistics) were tagged for merging by Robertgreer on 21 May 2010. Two existing sections on this Talk page already address the same issue: -Literature and Linguistics-, and -Duplicate Article-. Also, at Talk:trope (linguistics), another section titled -Duplicate Article- exists, analogous to the one ...