Figurative Language Flashcards
-is used by writers to produce images in readers’ minds and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways.
Figurative Language
-refers to the color we use to amplify our writing
Figurative Language
-is a way to engage your readers, ushering them through your writing with a more creative tone.
Figurative Language
- a comparison is between two objects of different kinds which have. However, one point in common.
-it is usually introduced be words as like, as or so.
Simile
-a word or phrase is applied to an object or action, though it is not literally applicable.
Metaphor
- word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show that they are similar.
Metaphor
is when an attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic is used to describe something nonhuman
Personification
-derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting,” is a figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
Hyperbole
-is an exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally
Hyperbole
- is an exclamatory figure of speech.
- It occurs when a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience and directs speech to a 3rd party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes absent from the scene. Often the addressee is a personified abstract quality or inanimate object.
Apostrophe
-The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Alliteration
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Assonance
is an idiomatic expression, which loses its literal meanings and refers to something else, in order to hide its unpleasantness.
Euphemism
is the opposite of euphemisms and are usually derogatory or unpleasant terms used in place of neutral ones
Dysphemism
- uses a phrase or statement that on surface seems contradictor, but makes some kind of emotional sense.
Paradox
puts together in one statement two contradictory terms.
Oxymoron
- refers to a word that phonetically mimics or resembles the sound of the thing it describes.
Onomatopoeia
The act of alluding is to make indirect reference. It is a literary device, a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words.
Allusion
