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The Tropes and Schemes Project

This document discusses tropes and schemes, which are rhetorical devices that depart from standard language use to evoke an effect and enhance a message. It provides examples of anapodoton, a scheme of omission where a main clause is suggested but not completed. Learners are tasked with selecting a trope or scheme to present on, including how it works and why one would use it, using examples. Resources for locating and learning about tropes and schemes include websites like Silva Rhetoricae as well as books on classical rhetoric.

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The Tropes and Schemes Project

This document discusses tropes and schemes, which are rhetorical devices that depart from standard language use to evoke an effect and enhance a message. It provides examples of anapodoton, a scheme of omission where a main clause is suggested but not completed. Learners are tasked with selecting a trope or scheme to present on, including how it works and why one would use it, using examples. Resources for locating and learning about tropes and schemes include websites like Silva Rhetoricae as well as books on classical rhetoric.

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the tropes and schemes project

tropes
The use of a word or phrase not intended by its normal
signifcation; word play.
schemes
The alteration of the simple structure of phrase patterns
or word order: repetition, enhancement, movement.
Both are departures from the standard to evoke an efect
and enhance the message. Beyond the what of a trope
or scheme, the rhetor (writer/speaker/image creator)
must have a why for its use.
the task
visit the sites listed on the fnal page of this document
select and sign up for a trope or scheme
create a presentation of your chosen trope or scheme
include the following in your presentation
power point
prezi
painting
performance
name of device
trope or scheme?
how does it work?
why would one use it?
two example sentences
Gk. without the main clause (apodosis).
A scheme of ommission
anapodoton anapodoton
* sample*
A sheme in which a main clause is suggested by the in-
troduction of a subordinate clause, but that main clause
never occurs.
Anapodoton is also named for what occurs when a main
clause is omitted because the speaker interrupts
himself/herself to revise the thought, leaving the initial
clause grammatically unresolved but making use of it
nonetheless by recasting its content into a new, gram-
matically complete sentence.
Purposeful uses include allowing the listener or reader
to fll in the blanks according to their understanding, or
to adjust the meaning mid-sentence.
anapodoton anapodoton
* sample*
If you think Im going to sit here and take your insults...
When you decide to promote me to managerwhen
you see more clearly what will beneft this corporationI
will be at your service.
anapodoton anapodoton
* sample*
sources for locating tropes and schemes
using one of the internets:
silva rhetoricae
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm
virtual salt
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
rhetorica.net
http://rhetorica.net/tropes.htm
bellevue college speech class
http://bellevuecollege.edu/artshum/materials/spch/Buxton/Schemes_Tropes.htm
using archaic forms of communication (books):
Farnsworths Classic Rhetoric, Farnsworth (2011)
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, Corbett (1998)
theres an app for that:
iTunes U: Liberty University English 101 Composition and Rhetoric
iTunes U: UC Berkeley Rhetoric 10

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