AP Lang Figurative Language Terms Flashcards
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| 10903975940 | allusion | short, informal reference to a generally well-known person, place, event, etc. | 0 | |
| 10903983684 | analogy | an extended comparison between two unlike things (similar to metaphor/simile); usually a well-known thing is employed to explain something less familiar | 1 | |
| 10904006137 | apostrophe | direct address of a personified object or audience, this is a forceful emotion device | 2 | |
| 10904014363 | irony | the contrast between what seems to be and what really is | 3 | |
| 10904018484 | dramatic irony | the reader or audience knows more about what is happening/is about to happen than the characters do | 4 | |
| 10904027323 | situational irony | an event is the opposite of what is expected | 5 | |
| 10904033717 | verbal iron | words mean the opposite of what is intended | 6 | |
| 10904037905 | kairos | rhetorical art of seizing the occasion, covering both timing and the appropriate medium | 7 | |
| 10904041767 | juxtaposition | placing two terms/concepts together for the sake of comparison/contrast | 8 | |
| 10904049501 | metaphor | figure that makes a comparison without using like or as | 9 | |
| 10904054655 | metonymy | reference to something closely related to the actual subject, so standing in for the object itself | 10 | |
| 10904060550 | paradox | an impossible pair that does point to a truth | 11 | |
| 10904065169 | synecdoche | use of a part of something to represent the whole | 12 | |
| 10904074088 | understatement | force of description is less than one might expect | 13 | |
| 10904079699 | cataloging | listing | 14 |