AP Lang -Figurative Language

If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

paradox

Edward Abbey writes in his essay "Down the River": The lion leaped up into the rocks and melted away.

metaphor

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury men may dine.

antithesis

She screamed so loudly that windows five miles away shattered into a million shards of glass.

hyperbole

A reporter refers to the president's administration as "the White House."

metonymy

In Julius Caesar, Cassius exclaims, "Age, thou are shamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!"

apostrophe

She was not unmindful of his circumstance.

litotes

Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world.

hyperbole

Let's go to bed now.

metonymy

Someone says "pretty fair" instead of "amazing" when describing a delicious dish.

meiosis/understatement

From The Iliad: But swift Achilles kept unremittingly after Hector, chasing him, as a dog in the mountains who has flushed from his covert.

simile

Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed.

hyperbole & personification