Vacab Unit1 Flashcards
Story with a meaning other than the literal one.(story telling)
Allegory(n)
The address of some non-personal object as if it were able to reply.
Apostrophe(n)
The beat,rate,or measure of any rhythmic movement.
Cadence(n)
Quality of being educational.
Didacticism(n)
A story not found on fact.
Fable(n)
Extravagant exaggeration
Hyperbole(n)
A word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar
Metaphor(n)
Statement that is seemingly contradictory.
Paradox(n)
Act of ascribing human qualities to an inhuman object.
Personification(n)
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.
Simile(n)
Something that represents something else.
Symbol(n)
The use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny.
Irony(n)
Representing something less strongly than what the facts would justify.
Understatement(n)
Bitter derision.
Sarcasm(n)
Situation in which action have an effect that is opposite from what was intended.
Situational irony(n)