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Figurative Language
Figures of Speech and Literary Techniques
37
English
11th Grade
06/26/2006

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Alliteration
Definition
The repetition of an initial sound in 2 or more words in a series
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Repetition
Definition
The repeating of single words or short phrases
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Simile
Definition
Direct comparision between 2 objects using like or as
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Metaphor
Definition
an implied comparison that does not use the words like or as
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Personification
Definition
the application of human qualities to objects, animals, or abstract ideas
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Oxymoron
Definition
opposite or contradictory words or ideas that are combined and may be true
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Onomatopoeia
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words which have sounds that imitate their meaning
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Hyperbole
Definition
an extreme exaggeration that is not taken literally
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Pun
Definition
A humouorous use of a word where it can have different meanings, or a play on words
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Paradox
Definition
a statement that may be true but seems to say two opposite things
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Assonance
Definition
Rhyme because of similar vowel sounds
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Consonance
Definition
repetition of a sequence of consonant sounds, but with a change in the intervening vowel sounds
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Metonymy
Definition
One thing is used for another to which it is related
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Antithesis
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involves contrast which is expressed in parallel terms
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Synecdoche
Definition
a part represents a whole
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Apostrophe
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is a direct address to an inanimate object which is personified, or to a person who is not present
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Allusion
Definition
a casual reference to something that is related
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Pathetic Fallacy
Definition
the ascription of human traits or feelings to inanimate nature
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Verbal Irony
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The literal meaning of a word or statement is the opposite of that intended. State one thing, but you mean another.
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Dramatic Irony
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speaker is unaware of the irony, but the audience or other characters are aware of it
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Imagery
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the use of words or phrases that usually help the mind form visual impressions of pictures (stimulate other senses also)
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Allegory
Definition
usually a type of story. A symbolic story where specific characters represent wider, general truths about human experience
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Realism
Definition
events in a work of fiction that could happen
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Satire
Definition
form of irony whereby events or persons are help up to ridicule, making fun of the human condition
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Internalization
Definition
the outside environment reflects the mood or temperament of a character
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Pathos
Definition
a literay work that moves the reader to feel pity or sorrow
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Bathos
Definition
Overdone sympathy (Intended to make you feel sorrow and pity)
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Nemisis
Definition
Just or retributive punishment (Force to which a character opposes- arch enemy)
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motif
Definition
reaccuring idea
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Aside
Definition
A character speaks when there are others on stage yet only the audience can hear them (Usually shorter)
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Soliloquy
Definition
The character is alone on stage (usually onger)
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Tragic Hero
Definition
Neither totally good nor totally bad- evoke pity and fear
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Tragedy
Definition
Invole serious and important events that turn out disastrously for the protagonist
Gives us a sense of human waste of potential
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Hamartia
Definition
Error of judgement and fatal flaw of a tragic hereo
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Reversal
Definition
Change from one state of affairs to another
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Recognition
Definition
Change from ignorance to knowledge
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Catharsis
Definition
Revealing of enmotions of pity and fear
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