Figurative Language Vocabulary Flashcards
Apostrophe
Addressing an absent person or thing, an abstract quality, or an inanimate or non-existent thing as if present.
Personification
Giving non-human things, human characteristics.
Consonance
The repetition of consonants in the middle or end of words contained in a certain phrase or sentence.
Onomatopoeia
A sound in the form of a word.
Understatement
To make a statement convey a meaning to a lower degree than as it is.
Irony
The use of words to convey their opposite meaning.
Simile
Comparing two objects, places, people, or ideas using the words “like” or “as”.
Metaphor
Comparing two objects, places, people, or ideas, without using the words “like” or “as”.
Allusion
An indirect relation or to refer to another cultural, historical, literary, or political person place thing or idea.
Alliteration
The repetition of consonants at the beginning of words in a certain phrase or sentence.
Paradox
A statement contradicting itself, yet containing a hidden meaning.
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning or middle of words contained in a certain phrase or sentence.
Repetition
Repeating a certain word, phrase, or sentence.
Oxymoron
When contradictory words are contained in the same statement, often next to eachother.
Gerund
A noun that is an action, ending in “ing”, and acts as a verb.
