AP Literature Terminology - Figures of Speech Flashcards

6060599964	Allusion	an indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand	0
6060603614	Anachronism	an event, object, custom, person, or thing that is out of its natural order of time	1
6060606691	Analogy	a comparison of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar	2
6060611541	Aphorism	A terse statement of a principal or truth; a maxim	3
6060615424	Apostrophe	a rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction	4
6060619947	Cliche	any expression that has been used to often that is has lost its freshness	5
6060622779	Epigram	any terse, witty, pointed saying	6
6060625037	Euphemism	the substitution of a mild term for one more offensive or hurtful	7
6060630033	Figurative Language	language that contains figures of speech, such as a metaphor, simile, personification, etc.	8
6060633220	Hyperbole	exaggeration for the sake of emphasis in a figure of speech not meant literally	9
6060638618	Kenning	a metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun	10
6060643383	Litotes	a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by saying its opposite, usually with an effect of understatement	11
6060649928	Malapropism	the comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound, but quite different in meaning	12
6060656078	Metaphor	the most important and widespread figure of speech in which one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two	13
6060667533	Extended Metaphor	an idea sustained throughout the work	14
6060669817	Dead Metaphor	one that has been used to much it has lost its figurative meaning and is taken literally	15
6060673408	Mixed Metaphor	a combination of two or more inconsistent metaphors in a single expression	16
6060678611	Metonymy	figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea	17
6060681772	Onomatopoeia	the use of words that seem to imitate the sounds they refer to	18
6060683409	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression	19
6060686584	Personification	the technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human	20
6060689783	Proverb	a short saying that expresses some commonplace truth or bit of folk wisdom	21
6060693370	Pun	a form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on a word with two or more meanings	22
6060698990	Simile	a less direct metaphor, using like or as	23
6060700483	Syllogism	a form of logical reasoning, consisting of two premises and a conclusion	24
6060705814	Syaesthesia	the description of one kind of sensation in terms of another	25
6060708897	Synecdoche	figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole	26
6060713675	Tautology	repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence	27
6060717271	Understatement	a type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than is actually is	28