Ap English Vocab 4

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Analogy

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the comparison of two things, which are alike in several respects, for the purpose of explaining or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea by relating it to something familiar

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Apostrophe

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a direct and explicit address to an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction

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Hyperbole

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use of deliberate exaggeration or overstatement for either serious or comic effect

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verbal irony

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the words literally state the opposite of the writer’s true meaning

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situational irony

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events turn out the opposite of what was expected

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dramatic irony

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facts or events are unknown to a character but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work

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Litotes

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a special form of understatement) the assertion of a fact by negating its contrary

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Metaphor

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a word or expression that makes an implied comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common

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conceit

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a complex and elaborate metaphor which establishes a striking parallel between two very dissimilar things or situations

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mixed metaphor

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is an incongruous mixing of metaphors

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Metonymy

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the use of something very closely associated with a thing to stand for or suggest the thing itself

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Onomatopoeia

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a word whose sound imitates that which it names

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Oxymoron

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the grouping of opposite or contradictory ideas or terms to suggest a paradox

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Personification

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representation of a thing as a person or by the human form in order to better understand certain traits of that thin

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pathetic fallacy

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personification of nature that is limited to emotion

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Pun

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a play on words that are either identical in sound (“homonyms”) or very similar in sound, but are very different in meaning

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Simile

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a word or expression that makes an explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature that yet have something in common

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Symbol

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something that is itself, but also has a range of reference beyond itself—signifies something else, like an idea

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Synecdoche

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a figure of speech that uses part of a thing to stand for or suggest the whole

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Understatement

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deliberate representation of something as being much less in magnitude or importance than it really is, or is ordinarily considered to be