Figurative Devices - AP Literature Flashcards

4335939694	Litotes	A form of understatement (saying the opposite of what we mean) often ironic or affirmation by saying something negative	0
4335949351	Meiosis	Understatement; minimizing for effect	1
4335953029	Antithesis	Balancing contrasting ideas (related to paradox, often ironic)	2
4335956992	Paradox	Seemingly contradictory statement with underlying truth	3
4335960778	Juxtaposition	Two or more opposing ideas used together to create a contrast	4
4335968352	Metonymy	Substitute symbol to represent a whole	5
4335971638	Synecdoche	Substitute part of whole to represent the whole	6
4335976775	Allegory	Extended narrative (in poetry or prose) in which the characters and actions - and sometimes the setting - are contrived to make sense on the literal and figurative levels	7
4335986103	Apostrophe	Address person not present	8
4335992943	Panegyric	Literary expression of praise	9
4335994787	Verbal irony	Saying the opposite of what you mean	10
4335997992	Situational irony	Discrepancy between what is said and what should be	11
4336003040	Dramatic irony	Speaks means something different from author, audience knows what the character doesn't	12
4336016148	Satire	Subject (usually a human vice) is made fun of or scorned, eliciting amusement, contempt or indignation. Purpose is to provoke change.	13
4336028944	Euphemism	Uses an inoffensive or more socially acceptable word for something that could be inappropriate or offensive to some	14
4336033466	Aphorism	Brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth	15
4336038203	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sound within a group of words or lines	16
4339277721	Consonance	The repetition of the sequence of two or more consonants but with a change in the intervening vowel	17
4339286125	Parallelism	A pattern of language that create rhythm of repetition combined with some other language of repetition focusing on grammatical structure	18
4339296764	Ploce	Repeating a word within the same line or clause	19
4339322299	Anaphora	The deliberate repetition of a word at the beginning of several lines, is used to emphasize an idea.	20