Figurative Language

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

Short, informal reference to a generally well-known place, person, event, etc.

Question 2

Analogy

Answer 2

An extended comparison between two unlike things (similar to a simile or metaphor); usually a well-known thing is employed to explain something less familiar

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

Direct address of a personified object or audience, that is a forceful emotional device (often found in informal writing)

Question 4

Irony

Answer 4

The contrast between what seems to be and what really is.
Three types:
1. Dramatic - the reader or audience knows more bout what is happening/is about to happen than the characters do.
2. Situational - an event is the opposite of what is expected.
3. Verbal - words mean the opposite of what is intended

Question 5

Kairos

Answer 5

Rhetoric art of seizing the occasion, covering both timing and the appropriate medium

Question 6

Juxtaposition

Answer 6

Placing two terms/concepts together for the sake of comparison/contrast

Question 7

Metaphor

Answer 7

Figure that makes a comparison without using like or as. It’s different from analogy in that it usually describes with vivid language rather than try to explain something unfamiliar

Question 8

Metonymy

Answer 8

Reference to something closely related to the actual subject, so standing in for the object itself

Question 9

Paradox

Answer 9

An impossible pair that does point to a truth

Question 10

Synecdoche

Answer 10

Use of a part of something to represent the whole (close to metonymy)

Question 11

Understatement

Answer 11

Force of description is less than one might expect. This can emphasize an idea, calm a reader, highlight an extreme nature, or add humor.