AP LIT POETRY TERMS #3

Irony

Broad term referring to the recognition of a reality different from appearance

Verbal Irony

Is a figure of speech in which the actual intent is expressed in words that carry the opposite meaning

Dramatic Irony

Two levels of meaning: what the speaker says and what he means, and what the speaker says and what the author means

Situational Irony

When the reality of the situation differs from the anticipated or indented effect; when something unexpected occurs

Litotes

A form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed by stating the negative of its opposite

Metaphor

Figure of speech which makes a direct comparison of two unlike objects by identification or substation

Metonymy

The substitution of a word which relates to the object or person to be named, in place of the name itself

Oxymoron

A self-contradictory combination of words or smaller verbal units

Paradox

A statement that although seemingly contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true

Personification

Figure of speech in which objects and animals have human qualities

Polysyndeton

The use of more conjunctions than is normal.

Simile

A direct comparison of two unlike objects, using like or as

Symbolism

In its broad sense it is the use one object to present or suggest another; in lit the serious and extensive use of symbols