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AP English
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Methaphor | implied comparison btween 2 things of unlike nature |
| Simile | explicit comparison btween two things of unlike nature "the sky is bleeding like a cut" |
| Synecdoche | figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole or vice-versa "the crown has been plagued by scandal" |
| Metonymy | substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant "In europe we gave the could shoulder to De Gaulle and now he gives the warm hand to Mao Tse-tung. |
| Antanaclasis | repetition of a word in two different senses. "If we dont hang together well hang seperately" |
| Paronmasia | use of words alike in sound but different in meaning "ask me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man" "Curl up and dye" |
| Syllepsis | use of word understood differently in relation to 2 or + other words which it modifies or governs. "the ink, like our pig, keeps running out of the pen" |
| Anthimeria | the substitution of one part of speech for another "Ill unhair thy head" |
| Periphrasis or antonomasia | substitution of descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of proper name for a quality associated with the name "in his later years, he became in fact the most scarifying of his own creatures: a Quixote of the costswold" |
| Personification/ prospoeia | investing abstractions for inanimate objects for heightened effect "the night comes crawling in on all fours" |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect "it rained four years eleven months and two days" |
| Litotes | deliberate use of understatement "Last week I saw a woman flayed and you will hardly believe how much it altered her appearance for the worse" |
| Irony | use of word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word "this plan means that one generation pays for another. now thats just dandy " |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words whose sound echo their sence "snap, crackle, pop" |
| Oxymoron | yoking of 2 terms that are ordinarily contradictory "Jumbo Shrimp" "advanced P.E." |
| Paradox | apparently contradictory satement that nevertheless contains some measure if truth "Art is a form of lying in order to tell the truth |
| rhetorical question | asked not for the puropse of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely "isnt it interesting that this person whom you set on your knees in our most private sessions at night and you pray doesnt even look like you? |
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