AP Terms List #5-Figurative Language
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| 132623556 | FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | written expression or language that is NOT meant to be taken literally. Most language is of a figurative nature(i.e. "you drive me up the wall") | |
| 132623557 | SIMILE | a comparison of two distinctly different things using "like" or "as" (i.e. "my love is like a red, red rose") | |
| 132623558 | METAPHOR | a direct comparison of two things; when a word or expression, which in literal usage denotes one kind of thing or action is applied to a distinctly different kind of thing or action ("Men are pigs") | |
| 132623559 | METONYMY | a type of metaphor; when the ltieral term for one thing is applied to another with which it has been closely associated (i.e. "The White House released an announcement today regarding the budget crisis") | |
| 132623560 | SYNECHDOCHE | a type of metaphor; when a part of something is used to signify the whole (i.e. "The Angels have several good arms on their pitching staff") | |
| 132623561 | HYPERBOLE | The use of extreme exaggeration to make a point (i.e. I called her a thousand times last night!") | |
| 132623562 | LITOTES | A form of understatement (i.e. "he's not the brightest man in the world") | |
| 132623563 | PERSONIFICATION | A type of metaphor that gives human qualities to animals or inanimate objects (i.e. The stars winked at me") | |
| 132623564 | APOSTROPHE | A rhetorical figure of speech that allows the speaker to address an absent person or inanimate entity (i.e. "Oh Spring, why are you so brief") | |
| 132623565 | CONCEIT | a figure of speech (an elaborate and extended metaphor) that draws an elaborate parallel between dissimilar things (i.e. Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is an example of metaphysical conceit while simpler (Petrarchan) conceits will be used in a poem to compare a tumultuous love affair with a ship on a stormy sea) | |
| 132623566 | PARADOX | A statement which at first seems to be self-contradictory or absurd, but in the end actually makes sense (i.e. "A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it") | |
| 132623567 | OXYMORON | When two paradoxical contradictory terms are joined together (i.e. "She gives me pleasing pains") | |
| 132623568 | end rhyme | the most frequent use of rhyme-it occurs at the end of a verse-line | |
| 132623569 | near(slant) rhyme | rhyme that uses similar, but not exact sounds groaned/crooned/ground | |
| 132623570 | masculine rhyme | rhyme that consists of one single stressed syllable (still, hill/war, bore | |
| 132623571 | feminine rhyme | rhyme that consists of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable (ending, bending) | |
| 132623572 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within the same line of poetry ("in mist or cloud, on mast or shroud"). | |
| 132623573 | refrain | a line or group of lines which is repeated in the course of a poem, sometimes with slight changes, and usually at the end of a stanza (i.e. Poe's The Raven: "Quoth the raven: nevermore") | |
| 132623574 | repetition | a poet's repeated use of a word, symbol, or motif | |
| 132623575 | euphony | pleasant sounds created by words | |
| 132623576 | cacophony | discordant sounds created by words | |
| 132623577 | onomatopoeia | words whose sounds reveal their meaning (buzz, whack, and whisper | |
| 132623578 | assonance | repetitious, stressed vowel sounds within a line of poetry (Hide the rinds by the driveway) | |
| 132623579 | consonance | repetitious, final consonant sound within a line of poetry (pretend your kind is found to surrender around the sun) | |
| 132623580 | alliteration | repetitious use of initial consonant sound within a line of poetry (Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers) | |
| 132623581 | enjambment | the act of continuous thought as it flows from one line of poetry to the next |