AP Language & Composition Figurative Language Vocabulary Flashcards

4819581468	allegory	a story in which the people, places and things represent general concepts or moral qualities	0
4819582795	colloquial expression	words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing	1
4819585665	euphemism	the use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but also less distasteful or offensive than another	2
4819589447	figure of speech	a word or expression that is not mean to be interpreted in the literal sense	3
4819591808	imagery	lively descriptions which impress the images of things upon the mind	4
4819594427	metaphor	a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically dissimilar	5
4819596887	motif	a recurring feature (name, image, phrase) in a work of literature	6
4819598010	oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms	7
4819599524	paradox	a statement that reveals a kind of truth, although it seems at first to be self-contradictory and untrue	8
4819602353	simile	a figure of speech involving a comparison using "like" or "as"	9
4819603853	symbol	something that stands for another thing; frequently an object used to represent an abstraction	10