Figurative Language

• Metaphor compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
• Personification gives human qualities or characteristics to non-human things, such as animals, objects, or ideas.
• Hyperbole is an exaggeration used to emphasize the truth.
• Simile uses the words "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things.
• Hyperbole - is an exaggeration used for emphasis.
• Onomatopoeia imitates sounds with words that sound like those sounds.
• Assonance repeats vowel sounds within words.
• Alliteration repeats consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
• Personification gives human qualities to non-human objects, animals, or ideas.
• Rhyme occurs when words end with similar sounds.
• Oxymoron combines contradictory terms.
• bittersweet is an example of?

  Oxymoron
• Metonymy - equal ( ex: The Phil. instead of Filipino)
• Parallelism is when words or phrases are repeated .
• "I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of  Parallelism.
• Synecdoche - A figure of speech that uses a part of something to represent the whole.
• repetition of first word is what?

  Anaphora
• Euphemism - replacing harsh words with more pleasant ones.
• morning breath, powder room is an example of what?

  Euphemism
• Charactonym - represents the character's characteristic.
• Epiphora- repetition of last words. ( ex: "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil")
• Consonance - repetition of consonant sounds.
• Alliteration - repetition of initial consonants.
• apostrophe is defined as “a rhetorical figure in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an abstraction or inanimate object”.
• Allusion-  a writer makes a reference to a famous story, person, object, or event.
• Shakespeare is a literary titan is an example of what figure of speech?

  Allusion
• Litotes- negating word into positive.
• Tautology is the use of different words to say the same thing twice in the same statement.
• “It will rain, or it will not rain” is what figure of speech?

  Tautology
• Paradox- contradictory statement.
• " The child is the father of the man" is an example of what?

  Paradox
• Chiasmus- criss cross pattern.
• An anaphora a word or expression is repeated at the beginning of a number of sentences, clauses, or phrases.
• Sally arrived, but nobody saw her is an ?

  Anaphora
• Co-reference - a reference to a person or thing that is mentioned in the same sentence.
• " The king is dead, long live the king " is what type of figurative language?

  EPANALEPSIS
• Tautophony - repetition of the same sound.
• Anadiplosis - example:  "Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task."
• Prolepsis - prediction ( ex: All hail Macbeth)
• Analepsis- a literary device in narrative, in which a past event is narrated at a point later than its chronological place in a story. ( flashback)