Figurative Language Flashcards
1
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The direct address of an absent or imaginary person
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Apostrophe
2
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Compares 2 unlike things using like or as
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Simile
3
Q
Direct comparison of 2 different things suggesting they are somehow the same
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Metaphor
4
Q
An object that represents something more abstract
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Symbolism
5
Q
The substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant
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Metonymy
6
Q
A figure of speech in which a part stands for a whole
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Synecdoche
7
Q
Giving a lifelike human quality to an inanimate object or idea
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Personification
8
Q
A form of personification, animals take on characteristics of man
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Anthropomorphism
9
Q
The deliberate use of an understatement
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Litotes
10
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Reference to something literary, mythological, or historical
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Allusion
