Flashcards in Figurative Language Deck (11)
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Allusion
Short, informal reference to a generally well-known place, person, event, etc.
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Analogy
An extended comparison between two unlike things (similar to a simile or metaphor); usually a well-known thing is employed to explain something less familiar
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Apostrophe
Direct address of a personified object or audience, that is a forceful emotional device (often found in informal writing)
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Irony
The contrast between what seems to be and what really is.
Three types:
1. Dramatic - the reader or audience knows more bout what is happening/is about to happen than the characters do.
2. Situational - an event is the opposite of what is expected.
3. Verbal - words mean the opposite of what is intended
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Kairos
Rhetoric art of seizing the occasion, covering both timing and the appropriate medium
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Juxtaposition
Placing two terms/concepts together for the sake of comparison/contrast
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Metaphor
Figure that makes a comparison without using like or as. It's different from analogy in that it usually describes with vivid language rather than try to explain something unfamiliar
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Metonymy
Reference to something closely related to the actual subject, so standing in for the object itself
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Paradox
An impossible pair that does point to a truth
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Synecdoche
Use of a part of something to represent the whole (close to metonymy)
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