AP English | Figurative Language Flashcards

4806639511	alliteration	repetition of initial consonant sound of several consecutive or neighboring words	0
4806641518	allusion	a reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place or thing	1
4806643803	antithesis	involves a direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings, generally for the purpose of contrast	2
4806646242	apostrophe	a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present	3
4806861193	assonance	the repetition of accented vowel sounds in a series of words	4
4806855309	consonance	the repetition of a consonant within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect	5
4806869295	flashback	a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event	6
4806903567	foreshadowing	the use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action	7
4806905847	hyperbole	a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration; may be used for either serious or comic effect	8
4806910503	verbal irony	the result of a statement saying one thing while meaning the opposite	9
4806944081	situational irony	when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect--though often the twist is oddly appropriate	10
4806949101	dramatic irony	occurs when a character says or does something that has more or different meanings from what he thinks it means, though the audience and/or other characters do understand the full ramifications of the speech or action	11
4806954733	metaphor	a comparison without the use of like or as; usually a comparison between something that is concrete and something that is abstract	12
4806960365	onomatopoeia (imitative harmony)	the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe	13
4806962859	oxymoron	a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single unusual expression	14
4806965940	paradox	when the elements of a statement contradict each other; although the statement may appear illogical, impossible, or absurd, it turns out to have a coherent meaning that reveals a hidden truth	15
4806986985	personification	a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics	16
4806993157	prosody	the study of sound and rhythm in poetry	17
4807039998	pun	a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings; puns can have serious as well as humorous usese	18
4807046927	sarcasm	a type of irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it	19
4807049934	sensory detail	an appeal to the senses (sight, sound, texture, taste, smell)	20
4807053679	shift or turn	a change in movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader	21
4807107511	simile	a comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words 'like' or 'as'; a definitely stated comparison in which the writer says one thing is like another	22
4807120350	symbols	any object, person, place, or action that has both meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value	23
4807127794	synecdoche (metonymy)	a form of metaphor; a part of something is used to signify the whole; the name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it is closely associated	24
4807149155	synethesia	sense mixing	25
4807150744	understatement (meiosis, litotes)	the opposite of hyperbole; a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	26