Figurative Language Flashcards
Colloquial Language
Informal language/casual tone
Asyndeton
Omits conjunctions between words
Polysyndeton
Adds conjunctions between words
Imagery
Vivid descriptive language
Allusion
Linking/reference to a person, event, text
Idiom
Expression that means something different than the individual words
Metaphor
An implied comparison between two unlike things
Alliteration
String of words with similar letters or letter combinations
Hyperbole
Exaggeration is used for effect or emphasis
Irony
Saying something when something else is meant (sarcasm)
Oxymoron
Two contradictory words (silent scream)
Simile
Comparing two things (like/as)
Personification
Giving an inanimate object/thing human qualities
Pun
A play on words
Apostrophe
Some absent thing is addressed (capable of understanding)
Metonymy
One word that is substituted for another (function)
Synecdoche
One word that is substituted for another (part)
Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate sounds
Paradox
A statement contradicts itself
Auditory Symbolism
Use of descriptive language to appeal to our sense of hearing
Syntax
Arrangement of words in a sentence
Sibilance
Hissing sound from a repetition of āSā sounds in a sentence or phrase
Pathetic Fallacy
Attributing human feelings to inanimate things
Acerbic Tone
Sharp, bitting, sarcastic tone
