A Song With Figurative Language – Flashcards
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Alliteration
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The repetition of beginning consonant sounds Ex: Time Tocks To Twenty Tons
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Allusion
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An indirect reference to a well known person, place, thing,or event Ex: No place like home
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Antithesis
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Contrasting of ideas in the same (or neighboring) sentence Ex: I don't like to lie to my parents unless there's something I want to hide in which case I do.
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Apostrophe
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An absent person, an abstract concept, or important object is directly addressed Ex: How are my little plants doing?
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Assonance
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The repetition of vowel sounds Ex: I got hit by a train So I was flat out lain I wanted the memories to drain so they gave me a candy cane
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Consonance
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The repetition of consonant sounds Ex: The rain just went pitter patter and pitter patter.
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Euphemism
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A word or a phrase that uses inoffensive language to express something offensive or unpleasant Ex: When someone says, "You're going to do well later on in life".
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Hyperbole
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An overstatement or exaggeration for emphasis, not literally true Ex: The boy was so hungry he even ate the plate itself!
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Imagery
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The words or detail that create images and impressions in the readers minds Ex: I could hear the pitter patter of the rain on the leaves and the slip of them slowly falling unto the ground.
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Irony
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Using a word or a phrase to mean the exact opposite of its normal meaning Ex: "A small loan of a million dollars."
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Litotes
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A figure of speech in which the speaker emphasizes the magnitude of a statement by denying its opposite, a deliberate understatement Ex: She's not that athletic.
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Metaphor
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A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as; asserts that one thing is another and forces the reader to consider the comparison Ex: "Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, Puffing at all, winnows the light away." -Shakespeare
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Metonomy
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Refers to a person or thing by naming one aspect, not the whole; an object or concept is used to refer to something that is closely associated with it Ex: How many Benjamins do you get paid a month?
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Onomatopoeia
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The use of a word that sounds like its meaning, helps to hear the words we read and consider sounds around us Ex: ( CRA / CK!! )
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Oxymoron
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The use of two contradictory words for a special effect Ex: Constructive Criticism
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paradox
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A statement that seems to contradict itself but actually makes sense Ex: Did the egg come first or did the chicken come first?
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Personification
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Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things Ex: The fire had thrown some new moves into it's dance routine.
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Pun
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a play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have very different meanings Ex: All of my Chemistry jokes Argon.
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Simile
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A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" Ex: This sentence is as bad as Real Madrid.
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Symbol
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An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. Ex: A white flag signifies surrendering.
