AP Lit: Figurative Language Flashcards

9874847640	abstract	ideas or general qualities of things; lacking vivid detail	0
9874847641	allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, Biblical, the arts, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize	1
9874848756	analogy	a comparison of two different things which are similar in some way	2
9874849389	apostrophe	a device used wherein a character addresses a dead, absent, or imaginary person, thing, or personified abstraction	3
9874849948	cliche	expression used so often that it has become hackneyed and lost its original impact	4
9874850699	concrete	specific details to particular persons/ things; creates a clear image for the reader	5
9874851292	conceit	an elaborate and often surprising comparison between two apparently highly dissimilar things; most notable for its ingenuity	6
9874852236	figurative language	a type of language employing figures of speech; cannot be taken literally or ONLY literally	7
9874853304	imagery	the representation through language of sense experience	8
9874853971	metaphor	a figure of speech that associates two unlike things; the representation of one thing by another	9
9874857080	motif	a unifying element in an artistic work, especially any recurrent image, symbol, character type, subject or narrative detail	10
9874857957	onomatopoeia	the creation or use of words that sound like what thy mean or seem to signify meaning through sound effects (like 'murmur', 'mumble', 'boom')	11
9874859369	oxymoron	figure of speech that juxtaposes two opposite or apparently contradictory words to present an emphatic and dramatic paradox for rhetorical purpose or effect	12
9874861343	paradox	a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements; upon closer inspection may be seen to contain an underlying truth	13
9874863179	personification	a figure of speech or trope that bestows human characteristics upon anything nonhuman, from an abstract idea to a physical force to an inanimate object to a living organism	14
9874871272	simile	a figure of speech that compares two distinct things by using words such as 'like' and 'as'	15
9874871778	symbol	something that means more than what it is; stands for or suggests something larger and more complex - often an idea or a range of interrelated ideas, attitudes, and practices	16
9874872904	synecdoche	a figure or speech (or trope) in which a part of something is used to represent the whole, or occassionally, the whole is used to represent a part (like a car is referred to as 'wheels')	17