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Part 4 Figures of Speech
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Allegory: An extended metaphor in which the characters, places, and objects in a narrative carry figurative meaning.
Allusion: A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
Ambiguity: A word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings is said to be ambiguous.
Anachronism: Someone or something placed in an inappropriate period of time.
Anthropomorphism: A form of personification in which human qualities are attributed to anything inhuman, usually a god, animal, object, or concept.
Aphorism: A pithy, instructive statement or truism, like a maxim or adage.
Apostrophe: An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present.
Antithesis: A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other.
Epigraph: A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section.
Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis.
Irony: As a literary device, irony implies a distance between what is said and what is meant.
Litotes: A figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite.
Metaphors: A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive for the word that would be expected.
Metonymy: A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
Mimesis (imitation): Greek for “imitation.”
Objective correlative: Set of objects, a situation, a chain of events for the formula of a particular emotion that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader.
Onomatopoeia: A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds.
Oxymoron: A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect, such as “jumbo shrimp” and “deafening silence.
Parody: A comic imitation of another author’s work or characteristic style.
Pastiche: A patchwork of lines or passages from another writer (or writers), intended as a kind of imitation.
Pathetic fallacy: The assignment of human feelings to inanimate objects.
Persona: A dramatic character, distinguished from the poet, who is the speaker of a poem.
Personification: A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes.
Pun: Wordplay that uses homonyms (two different words that are spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time.
Simile: A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as."
Sublime: A lofty, ennobling seriousness as the main characteristic of certain poetry.
Symbol: Something in the world of the senses, including an action, that reveals or is a sign for something else, often abstract or otherworldly.
Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole or the whole is used to designate a part.
Trope: Words are not used in their literal (or actual) sense but in a figurative (or imaginative) sense.
Verisimilitude: The appearance of being true, or a likeness to truth.
Zeugma: One verb or preposition joins two objects within the same phrase, often with different meanings.
Allusion: A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
Ambiguity: A word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings is said to be ambiguous.
Anachronism: Someone or something placed in an inappropriate period of time.
Anthropomorphism: A form of personification in which human qualities are attributed to anything inhuman, usually a god, animal, object, or concept.
Aphorism: A pithy, instructive statement or truism, like a maxim or adage.
Apostrophe: An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present.
Antithesis: A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other.
Epigraph: A short verse, note, or quotation that appears at the beginning of a poem or section.
Hyperbole: A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used for emphasis.
Irony: As a literary device, irony implies a distance between what is said and what is meant.
Litotes: A figure of speech in which a positive is stated by negating its opposite.
Metaphors: A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive for the word that would be expected.
Metonymy: A figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.
Mimesis (imitation): Greek for “imitation.”
Objective correlative: Set of objects, a situation, a chain of events for the formula of a particular emotion that the poet feels and hopes to evoke in the reader.
Onomatopoeia: A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds.
Oxymoron: A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect, such as “jumbo shrimp” and “deafening silence.
Parody: A comic imitation of another author’s work or characteristic style.
Pastiche: A patchwork of lines or passages from another writer (or writers), intended as a kind of imitation.
Pathetic fallacy: The assignment of human feelings to inanimate objects.
Persona: A dramatic character, distinguished from the poet, who is the speaker of a poem.
Personification: A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes.
Pun: Wordplay that uses homonyms (two different words that are spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time.
Simile: A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as."
Sublime: A lofty, ennobling seriousness as the main characteristic of certain poetry.
Symbol: Something in the world of the senses, including an action, that reveals or is a sign for something else, often abstract or otherworldly.
Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole or the whole is used to designate a part.
Trope: Words are not used in their literal (or actual) sense but in a figurative (or imaginative) sense.
Verisimilitude: The appearance of being true, or a likeness to truth.
Zeugma: One verb or preposition joins two objects within the same phrase, often with different meanings.
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