Figurative Language Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards covering literary terms and figures of speech from the lecture notes.

Simile

Compare w/ like or as

Metaphor

Implied comparison

Allegory

Symbolic story

Analogy

Idea vs. idea for clarity

Allusion

Reference or comparison to history

Hyperbole

Extreme exaggeration

Litotes

Deliberate understatement

Repetition

Repeat for emphasis

Anaphora

Repeat first word

Epistrophe

Repeat last word

Oxymoron

Opposite words together

Paradox

Circular contradiction

Antithesis

Opposite ideas to emphasize difference

Irony

Opposite of what is expected

Pun

Wordplay/joke

Alliteration

Repetition of initial sounds

Assonance

Repetition of vowels

Consonance

Repetition of consonants

Onomatopoeia

Sound words

Metonymy

Replacement name

Synecdoche

Part for whole

Euphemism

Polite replacement

Periphrase

Longer phrase

Parody

Comic imitation

Satire

Criticizing those in power

Apostrophe

Reference to nonliving using "O"

Caesura

Pause in verse

Ellipsis

Omission of words

Symbol

Representative image

Motif

Repeated symbol

Polysyndeton

Repeated conjunctions

Asyndeton

No conjunctions

Epigraph

Context at the start

Elision

Omission of syllables

Enjambment

No punctuation