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Figurative language
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sound of several consecutive or neighboring words: The twisting trout twinkled below |
| Allusion | a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing |
| Antithesis | Involves a direct contrast of structurally paralleled would groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast: Sink or Swim |
| 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: the words "cry" and "side" have the same vowel sound |
| Consonance | the repetition of a consonant within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect: And each slow duck a drawing- down of blinds |
| 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 |
| Hyperbole | a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration |
| Verbal irony | the result of a statement saying one thing while meaning the opposite: its easy to stop smoking I've don't it many times |
| Situational irony | when a situation turns outs differently from what one would normally expect thought often the twist is oddly appropriate: a deep sea drowning in a bathtub |
| Dramatic irony | Occurs when a character says or does something that has more or different meanings from what he thinks it means, though the audience and/or other characters do understand the full ramification of the speech or action |
| Metaphor | a comparison without the use of like or as; usually a comparison between something that is concrete and something that is abstract: time is money |
| onomatopeia | the use of words in which the sound seem resemble to sounds they describe |
| Oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single unusually expression: sweet sorrow, cold fire |
| Paradox | when the elements of a statement contradict each other. Although the statement may appear illogical impossible or absurd it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth |
| Personification | a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characterists |
| Prosody | the study of sound and rhythm in poetry |
| Pun | a play of words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings. Puns can have serious as well as humorous uses |
| Sarcasm | a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting |
| Sensory detail | an appeal to the senses |
| 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 |
| Simile | A comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words like or as |
| Symbols | any object, person,place, or action that has both meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself |
| Synecdoche | a form of metaphor. In synecdoche apart of something is used to signify the whole: All hands on deck |
| Synethesia | sense mixing |
| Understatement | the opposite of hyperbole, a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is |
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