Figure Of Speech Flashcards
Metaphor
Implied comparison without using like or as to indicate the comparison
Personification
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects ideas or animals
Synecdoche
Technique of mentioning a part of something to represent the whole
“All hands on deck”
Metonymy
Substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it
“Pay tribute to the crown”
The White House has decided
Symbol
Word or image that signifies something other than what it literally represents
Cross - Christianity
Donkey and elephant - political parties
Allegory
A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one
Overstatement
Exaggerations for the sake in emphasis and is not to be taken literally
Rivers of blood
Sweat to death
Understatement
Consists of saying less than one means or if saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants
Antithesis
Balancing or constrasting of one term against another
Man proposes God disposes
Apostrophe
Addressing of someone or something usually not present as though present
Dramatic Irony
The author implies a different meaning from that intended by the speaker in a literary work
Difference between what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true
Irony of situation
Between what is anticipated and what actually happens
Verbal irony
A figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said
Paradox
A statement or situation containing apparently contradictory or incompatible elements
Oxymoron
A compact paradox
Bitter sweet
Wise fool
Living death
