Figurative Language AP Flashcards

6302088068	Simile	a comparison using like or as	0
6302090691	Paradox	a statement that appears on the surface to be contradictory or impossible but turns out to express an often striking truth	1
6302101079	Metonymy	a trope which substitutes the name of an entity with something else that is closely associated with it`	2
6302105115	Antithesis	a figure of speech in which words or phrases that are parallel in order and syntax express opposite or contrasting meanings	3
6302111307	Oxymoron	a compressed paradox that closely links two seemingly contrary elements in a way that turns out to make good sense	4
6302115525	Personification	a figure of thought in which an abstract concept, animal, or inanimate object is treated as though it were alive or had human attributes	5
6302124719	Hyperbole	a great exaggeration	6
6302128685	Structural Irony	an implication of alternate or reversed meaning that pervades a work; involves an unreliable narrator	7
6302131779	Pathetic Fallacy	a special type of personification in which inanimate aspects of nature, such as the landscape or the weather, are represented as having human qualities or feelings	8
6302140726	Chiasmus	a figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the words	9
6302144735	Tragic Irony	Dramatic irony that ends in tragedy	10
6302152224	Periphrasis	a figure of thought in which a point is stated by deliberate circumlocution, rather than directly	11
6302158183	Rhetorical Question	a figure of speech in which a question is posed not to solicit a reply but to emphasize a foregone or clearly implied conclusion	12
6302161460	Litotes	a figure of thought in which a point is affirmed by negating its opposite	13
6302165807	Metaphor	a comparison of two unlike objects without using like or as	14
6302327615	Dramatic Irony	occurs when the audience is privy to knowledge that one or more of the characters lacks	15
6302335803	Understatement	a form of irony in which a point is deliberately expressed for less, in magnitude, value, or importance, than it actually is	16
6302339434	Synecdoche	a figure of thought in which the term for part of something is used to represent the whole	17
6302343231	Anaphora	the intentional repetition of words and phrases at the beginning of successive lines, stanzas, sentences, or paragraphs	18
6302351877	Verbal Irony	implying meaning different from and often the complete opposite of, the one that is explicitly stated	19
6302353785	Pun	a figure of thought that plays on words that have the same sound or closely similar sounds, but have sharply contrasted meanings	20
6302357770	Apostrophe	an address to a dead or absent person or to an inanimate object or abstract concept	21
6302365842	Cosmic Irony	an implied worldview in which characters are led to embrace false hopes of aid or success, only to be defeated by some larger force, such as God or fate	22