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For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. 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").
The term trope derives from the Greek τρόπος (tropos), 'a turn, a change', [8] related to the root of the verb τρέπειν (trepein), 'to turn, to direct, to alter, to change'; [6] this means that the term is used metaphorically to denote, among other things, metaphorical language.
A treatise of Schemes and Tropes very profitable for the better understanding of good authors, gathered out of the best Grammarians and Oratours by Richard Sherry Londoner. Whervnto is added a declamacion, That chyldren euen strayt frõ their infancie should be well and gently broughte vp in learnynge.
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 .
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A Critical Edition of Richard Sherry's "A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes". (Ph.D. thesis)--do.-- (1961). A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes, 1550, by Richard Sherry; and his translation of the Education of Children by Desiderius Erasmus; with an introduction by Herbert W. Hildebrandt. Gainesville: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints
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A masquerade is a Trope (literature) that is used to conceal the identity and certain characteristics of a figure. [1] This concealment has the effect of highlighting some unique or noteworthy aspect of a character or situation, despite its suggested intention of subtlety. [1]