Figurative Language Flashcards
A metaphor which has lost the original imagery of its meaning to extensive, repetitive popular usage and has a conventional meaning that differs from the original
Dead metaphor
An elaborate or unusual comparison esp. one using unlikely metaphors, simile, hyperbole, and contradiction
Conceit
A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem
Extended metaphor
A deviation from what speakers of a language understand as the ordinary or std use of words in order to achieve some special meaning or effect
Figurative Language
An exaggeration or overstatement
Hyperbole
Mental pictures that readers experience with a passage of literature
Imagery
A comparison of two unlike things that implies the comparison by using a word or phrase that describes the unmentioned term
Implied metaphor
Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is express by the negative of its contrary
Litotes
A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another, figuratively speaking
Metaphor
Using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea
Metonymy
A succession of incongruous or ludicrous comparisons
Mixed metaphor
Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense; contradictory terms are combined
Oxymoron
Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense; contradictory statement that could be true
Paradox
Abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions
Personification
An analogy or comparison implied by using like or as (adverb)
Simile
