AP Vocab 4

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Analogy

A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them

Conceit

unusual and elaborate comparison between two very different things

Allegory

a prolonged metaphor, a narrative in which characters, objects, and events have underlaying political, religious, moral, or social meanings

Metonymy

the use of the name of one thing for that of another associated or suggested by it.

Synecdoche

a part of something stands for the whole.

Anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Epistrophe

Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses

Eponym

a person whose name is, or is thought to be, the source of the name of something

Epiphany

a sudden insight or understanding. An intuitive grasp of reality achieved in a quick flash of recognition in which something, usually simple and commonplace, is seen in a new light

Stream of consciousness

a style of writing that portrays the inner and often chaotic workings of a speaker's mind through interior monologue

Antithesis

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Chiasmus

a pattern in which the second part is balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed.

Asyndeton

the practice of leaving out the usual conjunctions between coordinate sentence elements.

Polysyndeton

the use of more conjunctions than is normal.