A reference to an outside fact, event, or other source.

A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply.

What a word suggests beyond its basic defintion Example: Home = security, love, comfort, family

A poem in which a situation at a critical moment is presented by a narrator addressing a silent audience. Throughout his speech, the narrator reveals his own character.

A figure of speech like metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem

Language that cannot be taken literally or only literally

any way of saying something other than the ordinary way, saying one thing and meaning another

Sense experience, images can be literal or figurative

Irony (dramatic, situational, verbal)

contrast between meaning and suggestion of another meaning

Strong contrasting situations placed close together

Understatment for rhetorical effect I was not a little upset

Comparison between two unlike things Exam was piece of cake

A figure of speech in which something closely related is used to represent the thing actually meant. Example: Life came spilling out my body. Here life represents blood.

A paradox in which two words contradict one another Bitter sweet

A statement or situation containing apprently contradictory or incompatible elements. Examples: The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

Human attributes given to an animal, object, or concept The wind cried in the dark

Literature that ridicules human vice with the purpose of bringin about reform or keeping others from falling into a similar vice

Something meaning more than what it is

Figure of speech in which aprt is used for whole Hands on deck

A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with elss force than the occasion warrants

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Figurative language

Question	Answer
Allusion	A reference to an outside fact, event, or other source.
Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply.
Connotation	What a word suggests beyond its basic defintion Example: Home = security, love, comfort, family
Denotation	Dictionary meaning
Dramatic Monologue	A poem in which a situation at a critical moment is presented by a narrator addressing a silent audience. Throughout his speech, the narrator reveals his own character.
Extended figure	A figure of speech like metaphor, simile, personification, or apostrophe sustained or developed through a considerable number of lines or through a whole poem
Figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally or only literally
Figures of speech	any way of saying something other than the ordinary way, saying one thing and meaning another
Hyperbole	Overstatement
Imagery	Sense experience, images can be literal or figurative
Irony (dramatic, situational, verbal)	contrast between meaning and suggestion of another meaning
Juxtaposition	Strong contrasting situations placed close together
Litotes	Understatment for rhetorical effect I was not a little upset
Metaphor	Comparison between two unlike things Exam was piece of cake
Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something closely related is used to represent the thing actually meant. Example: Life came spilling out my body. Here life represents blood.
Oxymoron	A paradox in which two words contradict one another Bitter sweet
Paradox	A statement or situation containing apprently contradictory or incompatible elements. Examples: The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
Personification	Human attributes given to an animal, object, or concept The wind cried in the dark
Pun	Play on words
Satire	Literature that ridicules human vice with the purpose of bringin about reform or keeping others from falling into a similar vice
Simile	Like or as
Symbol	Something meaning more than what it is
Synecdoche	Figure of speech in which aprt is used for whole Hands on deck
Understatement	A figure of speech that consists of saying less than one means, or of saying what one means with elss force than the occasion warrants

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