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Figurative language
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Simile | a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words like or as. It is a definitely stated comparison in which the write says one thing is like another |
| Metaphor | A comparison without the use of like or as; usually a comparison between something that is concrete and something that is abstract |
| Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
| Hyperbole | a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration |
| Pun | a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. Puns can have serious as well as humorous uses |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sound of serval consecutive or neighboring words |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble to sounds they describe |
| Allusion | a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place or thing |
| Idiom | a phrase or expression whose total meaning cannot be understood from the literal definitions of its individual words |
| Verbal Irony | the result of a statement saying one thing while meaning the opposite |
| Situational Irony | when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect thought often the twist is oddly appropriate |
| Dramatic Irony | Occurs when a character says or does something that has more or different meanings from what he thinks it mean, though the audience and/or other characters do understand the full ratifications of the speech or action |
| Antithesis | Involves a direct contrast of structurally paralleled word groups, generally for the purpose of contrast |
| Apostrophe | a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present |
| Assonance | the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words |
| Consonance | the repetition of a consonant within a series of words produce a harmonious effect |
| Flashback | a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event |
| Foreshadowing | the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action |
| Oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single unusually expression |
| Paradox | when the elements of a statement contradicts each other. Although the statement may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd, it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth. |
| Prosody | The study of sound and rythm in poetry |
| Sarcasm | A type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it |
| Sensory detail | an appeal to the senses (sight, sound texture, taste, smell) |
| Shift or Turn | A change in movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker. a character, Or the reader |
| Symbols | any object, person, place, or action that has both meaning itself and that stand for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value |
| synecodoche | a form of metaphor; apart of something is used to signify the whole |
| metonymy | a form of metaphor; the name of one thing is applied to another thing with which is closely associated |
| Synethesia | sense mixing |
| Understatement (meiosis, litotes) | the opposite of hyperbole; a kind of irony the deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is |
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