SG APLAC Flashcards
Analogy
An analogy is acomparisonin which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it.
Anecdote
Anecdote is defined as a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh.
Metaphor
Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hiddencomparisonbetween two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them.
Simile
A simile is a figure of speech that makes acomparison, showing similarities between two different things. Unlike ametaphor, a simile draws resemblance with the help of the words “like” or “as”.
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is defined as a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing.
Oxymoron
Oxymoron, plural oxymora, is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect.
Personification
Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.
Understatement
Understatement is a figure of speech in which there is a contrast between the description and reality. As such, understatement can be used to reflect modesty, sarcasm, derogatory or complimentary tone.
Diction
Diction can be defined asstyleof speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or a writer.
Irony
Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
Hyperbole
yperbole, derived from a Greek word meaning “over-casting” is a figure of speech, which involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
Pun
A pun is a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings.
Litotes
Litotes is a figure of speech in which understatement is employed for rhetorical effect, principally via double negatives.
Metonymy
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
Paradox
It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth.
Apostrophe
A writer or a speaker, using an apostrophe, detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech.
Euphemism
The term euphemism refers to polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant.
Parallelism
Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning ormeter.
Chiasmus
Inrhetoric, a verbal pattern (a type ofantithesis) in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed.
Climax
Climax, a Greek term meaning “ladder”, is that particular point in anarrativeat which theconflictor tension hits the highest point.
Epanlepsis
A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or phrase at regular intervals: a refrain. Adjective: epanaleptic.
Antithesis
Antithesis, literal meaning opposite, is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.
Anaphora
In writing or speech, the deliberaterepetitionof the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect is known as Anaphora.
Alliteration
Alliteration is derived from Latin’s “Latira”. It means “letters of alphabet”. It is a stylistic device in which a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.
