Tropes about love:
1.) Metaphor:
o
"Love is a burning war of passion
and a chilling wave of unease."
o
Perhaps this is just an opinion, but
love is not literally a war, nor a physical wave. Instead, love contains essences of the
conflicting burning war and chilling wave.
(This phrase actually doubles as an oxymoron.)
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| My doge just got the pun, as indicated by his shocked expression and dropped tail. |
2.) Paronomasia
o
"We're a couple love hopeless
romantics."
o
The words "love" and
"of" sound very much alike, so the original sentence was edited with
an amusing replacement. Maybe the
sentence makes no logical sense now, but it has become a bit more interesting
with a similar sounding, but different wording.
3.)
Anthimeria
o
"I loved you then, I love you now,
and I will be your Love forever."
o
Seeing as the word love can be multiple
particles of speech at once, with varying definitions even amongst those
categories, is it not possible that this phrase can be read in multiple ways
not of the norm? Honestly, the lack of
rigidity of the word made this part quite difficult.
4.) Hyperbole
o
"Thomas, I love you, but you are
actually the dumbest person I have ever met."
o
Though truthfulness of this statement
might be up for debate, I highly doubt that anything I have done merited a
brand of such magnitude. Love often
escalates things out of their normal parameters. Contingencies such as "but" are
also scary precursors of horrible things to come.
5.) Oxymoron
o
"The one I love is also the one I
hate."
o
Obviously, this might depend on what
type of "love" is being addressed, but oftentimes couples find
extremes of both ends of the affection spectrum in their significant
other.
Schemes about love:
1.) Parallelism
o
"My love pervades through the
spring's bloom, the summer's fire, the fall's decay, and the winter's icy
tomb."
o
Passing through the four seasons, many
things change, but love still remains constant.
Even if the elements and weather attempt to wear away, love does not
fade.
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| Figurative language, like love, is a thought-provoking intricacy of life. |
o
"It is you whom I love."
o
One could easily switch around the order
or words to create the natural structure of "I love you," but this
shift makes the phrase a bit more inviting of further investigation.
3.) Ellipsis
o
"There is love in the air and in
the beating of your heart with mine."
o
This sentence actually contains two
instances of ellipsis in that "love" and "heart" are only
directly stated once apiece, but are indirectly present a second time.
4.)
Alliteration
o
"Love is lament and luscious
life."
o
This scheme is fairly obvious in that
the majority of words in the sentence start with the letter L. The combined effect of the repeated sound
gives off a wisp of wit in the writing.
Thomas, I "loved" your post (paronomasia). A way you could make anthimeria work better is if you still kept love in your sentence but maybe used a different word to change to another part of speech. For example you can say, "My love "monied" her way into my heart" if your love was rich and you were a gold-digger. Otherwise, you're completely correct. Love can be all sorts of different parts of speech
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