"narrative Style/language" Ap Lang & Comp

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Analogy

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a comparison of two things to show that they are alike in certain respects

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Simile

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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things by using a connective word like, as, than, or resembles

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Metaphor

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a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using connective words like, as, than, or resembles

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Personification

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a kind of metaphor in which a non-human thing or quality is talked about as if it were human

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Allusion

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a reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, or some other field of knowledge

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Images/imagery

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language that appeals to the senses

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Details

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words that name or state explicitly

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Pun

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a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words

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Euphemism

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the act or an example of the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensive

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Metonymy

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a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something

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Synecdoche

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a figure of speech by which a more inclusive term is used for a less inclusive term or vice versa

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Periphrasis

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the use of circumlocution

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Apostrophe

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a figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an absent or dead person, a diety, an abstract quality, or something non-human as if it were present and capable of responding

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Symbol/symbolism

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a person, place, thing or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself

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Motif

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a word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or in several works

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Archetype

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a pattern or model that serves as the basis for different but related versions of a character, plot, image, or theme

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Irony

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a contrast or discrepancy between expectations and reality- between what is said and what is really meant- between what is expected and what really happens- between what appears to be true and what really is true

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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory or opposing ideas

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Paradox

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an apparent contradiction that is actually true

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Attitude

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the situation plus the opinion or bias of the writer (articulated in a sentence)

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Tone

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the means by which an atttitude is conveyed (articulated word)