Trope Examples

We were to find at least one example of personification, hyperbole, pun, antithesis, irony, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and parody.

personification

From http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/mentor-text-spork/ or Spork

personification

Philosophy Rocks! by Stephen Law

hyperbole

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pun

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pun

CMYK Magazine, February 2012

antithesis

KMFDM t-shirt, design by Aidan Hughes

irony

The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson

metaphor

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metaphor

WWI Museum

metonymy

CMYK Magazine, February 2012 

synecdoche

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parody

Interview Magazine, February 2012