AP Lang Figurative Devices

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

repetition of consonant sonds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry

Question 2

apostrophe

Answer 2

a poetic device used to address absent or nonliving objects as if they were present or alive

Question 3

assonance

Answer 3

repetition of similar vowel sounds in words that are close together in a poem

Question 4

caesura

Answer 4

a paue within a line of poetry

Question 5

conceit

Answer 5

an extended metaphor that makes a complex comparison

Question 6

connotation

Answer 6

the implied or suggested meanings of a word

Question 7

consonance

Answer 7

repeated consonant sounds within the words of a line of poetry

Question 8

diction

Answer 8

the writer or speaker’s choice of words, depending on the audience

Question 9

elegy

Answer 9

a mounrful, melancholic or plaintive poem; a lament for the dead

Question 10

enjambment

Answer 10

the running on of thought from one line to the next wihtout a syntactical break

Question 11

figure of speech

Answer 11

a word or phrase that describes things in terms of another, not to be taken literally

Question 12

juxtaposition

Answer 12

a contrast close together

Question 13

hyperbole

Answer 13

the use of extravagant exageration

Question 14

imagery

Answer 14

language that appeals to the senses

Question 15

metaphor

Answer 15

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things wihtout helping words

Question 16

allusion

Answer 16

a referece to a well known person, place, thing

Question 17

onomatopoeia

Answer 17

the use of a word whose sound suggests or imitates its meaning

Question 18

personification

Answer 18

special kind of of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human

Question 19

pun

Answer 19

a play on multiple meanings of a word; two words that sound alike but different meanings

Question 20

inversion

Answer 20

switching word order to keep rhythm or rhyme

Question 21

simile

Answer 21

a figure of speech that makes a comparison using “like” or “as” or “resembles” or “than”

Question 22

tone

Answer 22

the attitude a writer takes toward the audience, subject, or character