AP Language Figurative Language Flashcards
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| 2836072354 | Allusion | Passing reference or indirect mention | 0 | |
| 2836085832 | Antithesis | The placing of a sentence or one of it parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas (The direct opposite) | 1 | |
| 2836100491 | Apostrophe | A Digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea | 2 | |
| 2836113616 | Euphemism | The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt | 3 | |
| 2836119214 | Hyperbole | Extravagant exaggeration | 4 | |
| 2836121906 | Imagery | Ability to form mental images of things or events | 5 | |
| 2836123268 | Irony | Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | 6 | |
| 2836139204 | Juxtaposition | Placing a person, concept, place, idea, or theme parallel to another | 7 | |
| 2836147564 | Litotes | Using an understated statement of an affirmative by using a negative description | 8 | |
| 2836152723 | Metaphor | Figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | 9 | |
| 2836158527 | Oxymoron | Using contradictory, contrasting concepts placed together in a manner that actually ends up making sense in a strange and slightly complex manner | 10 | |
| 2836172193 | Paradox | Use of concepts or ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together hold significant value on several levels | 11 | |
| 2836183652 | Personification | Act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas | 12 | |
| 2836187953 | Rhetorical Question | Question that asks without expecting an answer | 13 | |
| 2836193375 | Simile | Figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (like or as) | 14 | |
| 2836199127 | Synecdoche | Uses a part of something to refer to the whole (vice versa) | 15 |