AP Lit Figurative Language Flashcards
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| 6433359357 | Speaker | The voice behind the poem | 0 | |
| 6433359358 | Invented persona | The person who is understood to be speaking a particular work | 1 | |
| 6433359359 | Subject | The main theme of the poem | 2 | |
| 6433359360 | Denotation | Literal meaning | 3 | |
| 6433359361 | Connotation | Figurative meaning | 4 | |
| 6433359362 | Imagery | The use of figures of speech which are concrete , always refers to sensory experience | 5 | |
| 6433359363 | Metaphor | Two unlike things compared directly, implying several similar qualities | 6 | |
| 6433359364 | Simile | Two unlike things compared using like or as, implying only one similar quality | 7 | |
| 6433359365 | Personification | Giving human qualities to inanimate objects or nonhuman creatures | 8 | |
| 6433359366 | Apostrophe | Addressing some abstract object as if it were animate | 9 | |
| 6433359367 | Allusion | Referring metaphorically to persons, places, or things from history or previous literature, with which the reader is expected to have enough familiarity to make extended associations | 10 | |
| 6433359368 | Allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself | 11 | |
| 6433359369 | Conceit | An extended or elaborate metaphor which forms the framework of an entire poem with all comparisons being interrelated in some way | 12 | |
| 6433359370 | Symbolism | The use of one object to represent or suggest another object or idea | 13 | |
| 6433359371 | Occasion | An environment of ideas, attitudes, and emotions that swirl around a broad issue | 14 | |
| 6433359372 | Paraphrase | A restatement of speech or writing that retains the basic meaning while changing the words | 15 | |
| 6433359373 | Tone | Attitude of a writer toward the subject or an audience | 16 | |
| 6433359374 | Metonymy | Substitution of one word for another closely related word | 17 | |
| 6433359375 | Hyperbole | Saying more than is true, an over-exaggeration | 18 | |
| 6433359376 | Irony | Saying the opposite to what is true | 19 | |
| 6433359377 | Antithesis | Using contrasts for an accumulate effect | 20 | |
| 6433359378 | Paradox | A statement which while seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well-founded or true | 21 | |
| 6433359379 | Pun | A play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings | 22 |