A figure of speech that gives human qualities to abstract ideas, animals, and inanimate objects.

The use of words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning.

A comparison, usually using "like" or "as," of two essentially dissimilar things.

To state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms.

The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. A sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark.

Understatement, especially in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all."

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for the part, the special for the general or the general for the special.

In literary criticism, deliberate, exaggeration used to achieve an effect.

Something that suggests or stands for something else without losing its original identity.

A reference to a familiar literary or historical person or event, used to make an idea more easily understood; a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize.

A statement, question, or request addressed to an inanimate object or concept or to a nonexistent or absent person.

A figure of speech that expresses an idea through the image of another object; suggestion the essence of the first object by identifying it with certain qualities of the second object.

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Figures of Speech

AP Lit - Figure of Speech Vocab

Term	Definition
personification	A figure of speech that gives human qualities to abstract ideas, animals, and inanimate objects.
onomatopoeia	The use of words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning.
simile	A comparison, usually using "like" or "as," of two essentially dissimilar things.
understatement	To state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms.
euphemism	The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. A sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark.
litotes	Understatement, especially in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all."
synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for the part, the special for the general or the general for the special.
hyperbole	In literary criticism, deliberate, exaggeration used to achieve an effect.
symbol	Something that suggests or stands for something else without losing its original identity.
allusion	A reference to a familiar literary or historical person or event, used to make an idea more easily understood; a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize.
apostrophe	A statement, question, or request addressed to an inanimate object or concept or to a nonexistent or absent person.
metaphor	A figure of speech that expresses an idea through the image of another object; suggestion the essence of the first object by identifying it with certain qualities of the second object.

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