Figurative Language Flashcards
What is a methaphore ?
Direct comparaison
What is a simile?
Comparaison with like, as or than
What is an allegory ?
Poem with hidden meaning. Convey a deeper message with symbols, characters and setting. Make sense on primary and secondary level.
What is a metonymy?
A thing that is attributed to another thing but aren’t related. Are associated.
What is a synechtochy?
A part that signifies a whole, a whole that signifies a part.
What is a symbole?
Anything that signify something else.
What is an assonance?
Sound pattern with vowels.
What is a consonance?
Sound pattern with consonance.
What is a Anacoluthon?
When the syntax is very ungrammatical.
What is a Aposiopesis?
A shock moment, the narrator becomes silent.
What is an Atanaclasis?
Type of pun that uses the word twice.
What is a syllepsis?
One word =two meanings depending on the word it connects to.
What is a paronomasia?
Similarity of sound.
What is a Neologism?
New or invented word.
What is a personnification?
Object or abstract concept being alive as a character.
What is a pathetic fallacy?
Object or concept given human atributes.
What is verbal irony?
Sarcasm.
What is structural irony?
The character is not aware of what is going on around them but we do.
What is dramatic irony?
We know something the character doesn’t. Says something that anticipate his faith but not in the way we know it.
What is cosmic irony?
The character has false hope and is being manipulated to frustrate him or mock him.
What is a paradox?
Statement that seem impossible but reveals a deeper truth.
What is an oxymore?
Two terms joined together but are opposite. Contradictory words put together.
What is parallelism?
Balance within one or more sentenced or similar phrases - have the same grammatical structure.
What is an Antithesis?
Contrasting or combining two terms phrases with opposing meanings.
What is a Chiasmus.
Repetition of any group of words. Reversed to create emphasis. ABBA pattern.
What is an Antimetabole?
Exact words but reversed.
What is a iteration?
Simple repetition of a single word.
What is an anaphora?
Repetition of words at the beginning on a verse.
What is an epistrophe ?
Repetition at the end of the verse.
What is an epithet?
Term accompanying the name of a real person, place or things and are closely associated.
What is a Circumlocation.
Way of talking about something without really talking about that thing.
What is a congerie?
Listing words to emphasize a point.
What is a polysyndeton?
Repetition of conjunction.
What is an Asyndethon.
Omission of conjunction.
What is an apostrophe?
Address to a dead or absent person as if they were there.
What is an invocation?
Address to a god or a muse to ask for inspiration or help. Happens at the beginning. Type of apostrophe.
What is a rhetorical question?
Question without answer.
What is an exclamation?
Cry of emotion - interruption.
What is a command?
Direct order, a blessing or a curse.
What is an anastrophe?
How yoda speaks and is a syntactic deviation.
What is a metaphysical conceit?
Extended metaphor that makes surprising far-fetched comparisons between two very different things.
What are the two parts of the metaphor?
Tenor - what the person means
Vehicle - the way they express it.
