AP Lit Figurative Language Flashcards

7273850142	adage	a proverb or short statement expressing a general truth	0
7273850143	allusion	a passing reference to historical or fictional characters, places, or events	1
7273850144	antithesis	a figure of speech in which opposing or contrasting ideas are balanced against each other in grammatically parallel syntax	2
7273852305	aphorism	a terse statement of a principle or truth; an observation about life	3
7273852306	apostrophe	the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person	4
7273854837	dead metaphor	a metaphor that, through repeated and customary use, has lost its figurativeness and is taken literally	5
7273854838	epanalepsis	figure of speech defined by the repetition of the initial word (or words) of a clause or sentence at the end of that same clause or sentence	6
7273856632	epithet	an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing to emphasize a characteristic quality or attribute	7
7273856633	euphemism	a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing	8
7273858039	extended metaphor	a metaphor that is sustained for several lines or that becomes the controlling image of an entire poem	9
7273858040	figurative language	language that contains figures of speech (metaphor, simile, personification)	10
7273858973	hyperbole	obvious, extravagant exaggeration	11
7273858974	idiom	a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (i.e. let's hit the road)	12
7273858975	kenning	a metaphoric compound word or phrase used as a synonym for a common noun	13
7273858976	litotes	a form of ironical understatement that affirms something by stating the negative of its opposite; meiosis	14
7273860244	maxim	a succinct formulation of a principle, rule, or basic truth about life; great sayings everyone knows	15
7273860245	metaphor	an implied analogy in which one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another, dissimilar thing	16
7273867805	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant (i.e. suit for business executive)	17
7273867806	mixed metaphor	a metaphor that combines two incompatible images in a single expression (she must clear that hurdle if she is to keep her head above water)	18
7273868962	onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sound imitates the sound of the thing being named (i.e. hum, buzz, clang)	19
7273868963	oxymoron	two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression (i.e. pretty ugly)	20
7273868964	paradox	a statement that, apparently self-contradictory, is nonetheless essentially true	21
7273870113	personification	human characteristics are attributed to animals, plants, inanimate objects, etc.	22
7273870114	rhetorical question	a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer	23
7273870115	simile	a figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to compare two essentially different objects that share some aspect of similarity	24
7273871185	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing (i.e. saying wheels when you are talking about an automobile)	25
7273872742	synesthesia	the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body	26
7273872743	trope	a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression	27
7273872744	understatement	a type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is	28
7273874033	verbal irony	a figure of speech in which there is a meaningful contrast between what is said and what is actually meant	29
7273874034	zeugma	a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (i.e. weeping eyes and heart)	30