AP Poetry Term List 2
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cwilkeson on January 25, 2012
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Figurative Language
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Apostrophe | Direct address in poetry. Ex: "Be with me Beauty, for the fire is dying" ~Yeats |
| Figurative Language | The body of devices that enables the writer to operate on levels other than the literal one. |
| Hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration. Ex: loving "until the seas run dry" ~Burns |
| Metaphor | A direct comparison between dissimilar things. Ex: "Your eyes are stars" |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea. Ex: "The pen is mightier than the sword" |
| Personification | The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts. Ex: "the sea that bares her bosom to the moon" ~Wordsworth |
| Simile | An indirect comparison that uses the words "like" or "as" to link the differing items in the comparison. Ex: "Your eyes are like stars" |
| Symbol | Something in a literary work that stands for something else. Ex: the sun symbolizes truth in Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave" |
| Synecdoche | A figure of speech that utilizes a part as a representative of the whole. Ex: "All hands on deck" |
| Understatement | The opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. |
| Implied Metaphor | A metaphor in which the comparison is subtle or covert rather than explicit. |
| Extended Metaphor | The comparison between two things is continued beyond the first point of comparison. This extends and deepens a description. |
| Controlling Metaphor | A metaphor that is central to and runs through an entire work including the title. |
| Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') |
| Meiosis | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) Ex: "I was not a little upset." aka Litotes |
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