ap english week 4 vocab

208140853	metaphor	compares two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other, metaphors assert that one thing is another thing.
208140854	catachresis	an extravagant, implied metaphor using words in an alien or unusual way.
208140855	metonomy	another form of a metaphor, in which the thing chosen for the metaphorical image is closely associated with the subject with wich it is to be compared.
208140856	personification	represents an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes.
208140857	hyperbole	deliberately exaggerates conditions for emphasis or effect.
208140858	allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize
208140859	oxymoron	conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence')
208140860	epithet	An adjective or other descriptive phrase that is regularly used to characterize a person, place, or thing
208140861	eponym	Substitutes for a particular attribute the name of a famous person recognized for that attribute
208140862	hyperbaton	departure from normal word order; a form of inversion (a personality indescribable)