Figurative Language

A harsh, discordant, unpleasant-sounding choice and arrange-ment of sounds.

"A married ear" exemplifies

Figurative language addressing a person or personified object not present =

I’ll love you, dear, Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street

So now Della’s beautiful hair fell about her rippling & shining like a cascade of brown waters. - "The Gift of the Magi"

A moment or event in which a character achieves a spiritual insight into life or into her or his own circumstances.

Gross exaggeration for effect; overstatement

The use of words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances.” - W.S.

Patterns of sensory language related to the sense of smell =

Nonmetrical poetry using the line as basic rhythmic unit; pauses, line breaks, & formal patterns develop organically.

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox for strong effect

A situation in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable.

A brief speech in which a character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience.

A smooth, pleasant-sounding choice and arrangement of sounds.

"All hands on deck!" =

Two successive lines, usually in the same meter, linked by rhyme.

The basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word.

A seemingly absurd/self-contradictory statement that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true

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What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition; a word's overtones of meaning.

The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words.

"Are you then Virgil, the fountainhead that pours so full a stream of speech?" - Dante, Inferno

The substitution of a word which relates to the object or person to be named, in place of the name itself =

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” - Pablo Picasso

"Give us this day our daily bread" is an example of

The reality of a situation differs from the anticipated or intended effect.

Figure of speech in which a part represents the whole object or idea

Patterns of sensory language related to the sense of taste =

"Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me." - Frankenstein

Artemus Ward described being on fire as " a sensation of excessive and disagreeable warmth".

The audience knows something of which a character is demonstrating lack of awareness.

A figure of speech in which the name of an attribute or a thing is substituted for the thing is

The Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only that one word as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.

A reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history.

“Chaos is a friend of mine.”- Bob Dylan

Meaning one thing and saying another

Patterns of sensory language related to the seeing =

“America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.” - John F. Kennedy

A speech pause occurring within a line.

Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words.

I've read all of Dante said in reference to having read all works written by Dante

A narrative or description that has a 2nd meaning beneath the surface, often relating each literal term to an idea.

Understatement for effect

Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

What figurative language appears in the poetry excerpt contained in this image?

"Boston beat Chicago yesterday," said in speaking about a baseball game is an example of

The creek was singing to itself down among the willows, and the soft wind bent the grasses over the top of the bank.

The use of one object to suggest another hidden object or idea

"I shall be telling this with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence," shows Frost using

"I've always been a fan of the stage," said to mean "I've always liked watching plays," is

Patterns of sensory language related to the sense of hearing =

Patterns of sensory language related to the sense of touch =

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; / I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." - Julius Caesar