Figurative Language about Men vs. Women

Check out my previous blog post on Men vs. Women

Tropes

 Metaphor

·      Men and women are salt and sugar.

·      This is an example of metaphor because I am comparing men and women to salt and sugar by saying  The effect is that salt and sugar seem very similar but are, in actuality, extremely different and used for different purposes.

that they are salt and sugar.

Paronomasia

·      Sometimes, I feel like the definition of women needs “a-men-dment.”

·      This is a paronomasia because I take the word amendment which means to change something to make it better, but it also contains the word men, which indicates that men have something to do with the definition of women or that women just become a part of man.

Anthimeria

·      Girls can flip back their long, shiny hair and women their way into persuading every man to do whatever they want.

·      This is an example of anthimeria because I use women, a noun, as a verb.  The effect is that women become verbs, possessing certain common actions, such as persuasion of men just through their beauty.

Hyperbole

·      Figuring out what women want is more difficult than crossing the Sahara dessert with no water while carrying a camel on your back.

·      This is a hyperbole because the wants of women are not actually as strenuous and impossible as suffering in the Sahara desert.  The effect is that people realize that understanding women is difficult to do.

Oxymoron

·      Some men might believe that grand gestures will woo women, but in reality it is the big little things that they do every day.

·      This is an example of an oxymoron because big and little are opposites and adjacent to each other.  The effect is that little things that men do for women like complimenting them or walking with them are actually important and big.

Schemes

 Parallelism

·      Men are simple, strong, reserved, and hunky, but women are complex, catty, bold, and beautiful.

·      This is an example of parallelism because the lists are all adjective, making a parallel structure.  Also the clauses are parallel as they are both independent and go ______ is ____, ____, ____, and ____.  Furthermore, the words in the lists describe the same type of character traits or looks but are different for men and women, furthering parallelism.  Parallelism here highlights the differences between men and women.

Anastrophe

·      Understand women, never men will.

·      This is an example of anastrophe because the normal sentence order should go, You will never understand women.  The sentence structure is changed.  The effect is that "understand women" becomes the most important part of the sentence, not the subject, men.

Ellipsis

·      Men have complex thoughts; women, more complex.

·      This is an example of an ellipsis because what is left out is that women have more complex thoughts than men.  However, one can easily figure out what the sentence means.  The effect is that the sentence is more concise and to the point.  You can see better the varying degrees between men and women.

Alliteration

·      Most men make messes.  Woman won't want woeful wrongdoers who wreck.

·      This is alliteration because the first sentence uses all "ms" as the first letter; the second sentence, "ws."  This highlights again the difference between men and women through the differences in first letters.  It is also interesting to not that Ms and Ws are simply switched symbols, making men and women opposites.

As I was making up these tropes and schemes, I noticed that what I wrote I didn’t really believe but it still seems pretty convincing to me.  I think the figures of speech help convince people.