http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/MediaNotes/RhetoricalPhrasing
Go To
Language in media usually is ornate, andRealistic Diction Is Unrealistic. These notes are covering the ways that text can be constructed artistically, without needing to haveSesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
Theseways are also called"figures of speech"
, but we're not going to use that term because it could be confused as a synonym for "something to not take literally".
Methods to produce ornamentation in text involve features of words that aren't just their individual meaning, such as their relation to other words nearby, whether they repeat in a phrase, or the letters, or sounds, they start or end with, for example, sometimes something isRepeated for Emphasis. EvenDouble Meaning is a way that phrasing is used rhetorically.
Technically,Constrained Writing is the same concept but generalized into whole works instead of just a single / few phrases, and without a rhetorical point to convey. A.k.a, whenever you deviate from "normal" speech, you're getting close to a manner of rhetorical phrasing, you just need an idea to convey to really make it.
Ideas that the writer might try to convey with these ways of phrasing can be categorized quite broadly, such as intensification of a subject, or drawing the audience's focus towards a subject.
While these notes are preoccupied with English / alphabetical writing systems, logographical systems such as Chinese can do similar things with similar features, like having multiple characters with the same radical, is similar to alliteration.
The repetition that makes theRepeat Index Index's tropes, are one way to be rhetorical, such as with:
In any case, some other patterns that we have noticed are:
: Repeating a phrase after a few unimportant words. Tropes that involve that are:: Where a phrase has the same word at its beginning and end, such as with:: Where not just the beginning and end of a phrase are the same, but the whole of a phrase is mirrored along some pivot. Known on this wiki asRussian Reversal..See alsoLit. Class Tropes andPoetry Tropes.
