Figurative Language

1. Figurative Language

4. The muscles on his brawny arms are strong as iron bands • The road was a ribbon of moonlight • The trees danced in the wind • Giving inanimate objects/animals human characteristics • Wide eyed and wondering while we wait for others to waken. • Beginning of each word SimileMetaphorPersonificationAlliteration

6. These are both forms of metaphor • Using a part to represent the whole • Ex: All hands on deck • Nice wheels! • Where a thing or concept is not called by it’s name but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept. • Look at the skirt that just walked in. SynedocheMetonymy

7. Repetition of consonant sounds within a series of words • Ex: the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain • Helplessly hoping her harlequin hovers nearby • Repetition of vowel sounds within a series of words • Ex: I bomb atomically—Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses can't define how I be droppin' these mockeries. • Hear the mellow wedding bells ConsonanceAssonance

8. O! Romeo, Romeo? Wherefor art thou Romeo? • a form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present • speaking to inanimate objects • O eloquent just, and mighty Death! Apostrophe

9. Paradox

10. a statement which contradicts itself • Ex: The poorest man is the richest, and the rich are poor • Someday you will be young enough to read fairy tales again – CS Lewis • Stone walls do not a prison make • This statement is false The above statement is true Paradox

11. a reference to a mythological, literary, historical, or Biblical person, place or thing. My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori. Think of The Veldt Allusion

12. Antithesis

13. the juxtaposition (placing together) of contrasting ideas so that each will appear more striking by the contrast • Involves a direct contrast of structurally parallel word groupings • Ex: Many are called, but few are chosen • To err is human, to forgive is divine • Sink or swim • You’re easy on the eyes but hard on the heart • My only love, sprung from my only hate Antithesis

14. where contrary terms are combined into a single expression • Ex: I think we’re alone now • Friendly fire • Definitely maybe • Dodge Ram • Yeah, no • Jumbo Shrimp • Exact estimate • Alone together • Less is more • Living dead Oxymoron

15. Understatement

16. the opposite of hyperbole, it deliberately represents something as less than it is • AKA meiosis • Ex: Tis but a scratch A scratch? Your arm’s off! Understatement

17. Play on words - eithertheir different meanings orupon two different words sounding the same. • I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. • The bicycle fell over because it was two tired. • The clock was so hungry it went back four seconds. • Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now. • I couldn't quite remember how to throw a boomerang, but eventually it came back to me. Pun

18. When the opposite of what is expected occurs • 3 Types: Verbal, Situational & Dramatic Irony