Rhetorical Analysis Review ^ Rhetoric Tool Box: Figurative Language Flashcards
an expression that has become ineffective through overuse (ex: “jump for joy”, ‘slow as molasses”)
cliché
an expression that is habitually by a particular group of people, or with a particular meaning in a language (ex: “give them a hand”, “make up your mind”)
idiom
an address to someone or something that cannot answer; a figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker (ex: liberty)
apostrophe
a figure of speech in which ideas or objects are described as having human qualities or personalities (ex: the saddened birch trees were bent to the ground)
personification
a two-word paradox (ex: “Jumbo shrimp”)
oxymoron
a phrase or statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true (ex: “You have to be cruel to be kind.”)
paradox
explains something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar.
analogy
a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared directly usually for emphasis or dramatic effect (ex: “she lived a thorny life”)
metaphor
a figure of speech that compares using the words “like” or “as” (ex: “he drank like a camel”)
simile
the naming of a concept through association (ex: “a crown associated with authority”)
metonymy
a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa (ex: “all hands on deck”)
synecdoche
juxtaposition in balanced or paralleled structure; the direct opposite (ex: “I hope that one day my children will be judged not by their skin color, but by the content of their character)
antithesis
the placement of two contrasting ideas, images, or objects together
juxtaposition
a type of understatement; occurs when an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (ex: “She was not unkind.”
litotes
used to soften the impact of what is being discussed (ex: “departed in lieu of dead”)
euphemism
