style figures unit 2 Flashcards

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dramatic irony

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when the reader or audience knows something the characters do not

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analogy

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a comparison of similarities between things which are otherwise unlike
(“life is like a box of chocolates”)

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soliloquy

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a speech that one gives to oneself. In a play, a character delivering a soliloquy talks to herself - thinking out loud, as it were- so that the audience better understands what is happening to the character internally.

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hyperbole

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use of exaggeration to enhance a point (“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse”)

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oxymoron

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two words that contradict each other, placed beside each other (awfully good, black snow)

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personification

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attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form (“The flowers danced to the wind. The sun smiled down on us.”)

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