Figurative Language Flashcards
Alliteration
: Fair is foul and foul is fair
the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables.
Enjambment 인젬먼트, 구의 걸치기?
: We were running to find what had happened beyond the hills.
the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines.
A poetic term for a sentence or word that continues from one line to the next.
Allusion
: You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand poetry.
the act of making an indirect reference to something.
well-known
Anaphora
: Now is the king to make real the promises of
democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and
repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive, phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect.
Euphemism 유페미즘 완곡어구
: She was let go instead of saying she was fired.
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
*A soft or roundabout word or phrase used instead of one that is too harsh or direct to talk about something unpleasant or embarrassing.
Simile
: As cold as ice
comparison of two things (normally very different) using like or as.
Metaphor
: Her tears were a river flowing
down her cheeks
Her eyes were daggers
A comparison between two very different things (not using like or as). They seem completely unrelated.
Onomatopoeia
: The bridge collapsed creating a tremendous boom.
the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
*the process of making a word that sounds like, suggests, or sounds like the sound it describes.
Symbolism
: The colour black as a symbol of death, danger, or mystery.
the use of symbols to represent ideas or meanings.
Personification
: Lightning danced across the sky.
giving human qualities to inanimate objects or things that aren’t human
*giving human traits to things that aren’t human or aren’t alive
Hyperbole
: These high heels are killing me.
An exaggeration
Imagery
descriptive language that makes use of the 5 senses (see, taste, touch, hear, smell)
Oxymoron 모순
: cruel kindness
a combination of contradictory words
Paradox 역설
: Nobody goes to that restaurant; it is too crowded.
a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
