Figures of Speech

Tropes

• a personal, jeering ridicule that is intended to hurt individuals

• alterations in the usual meanings of words or phrases

• A comparison using LIKE or AS

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Sarcasm

• alterations in the usual meanings of words or phrases

• the deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context

• a personal, jeering ridicule that is intended to hurt individuals

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Ellipsis

• the deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context

• an implied comparison between two unlike things

• The use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Asyndeton

• a personal, jeering ridicule that is intended to hurt individuals

• the deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context

• omitted conjunctions, which produce a fast-paced and rapid prose

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Metaphor

• an implied comparison between two unlike things

• a comparison of two unlike things using LIKE or AS

• a deliberate exaggeration for emphasis

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Onomatopoeia

• the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

• a statement commonly defined as a question that does not require an answer

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

Hyperbole

• deliberate exaggeration for emphasis

• the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Rhetorical Question

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

• a statement commonly defined as a question that does not require an answer

• a deliberate exaggeration for emphasis

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Oxymoron

• attributing animal qualities that are not uniquely human to an inanimate object

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

• the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Animism

• a contradiction; two contradictory terms or idea that are used together

• attributing animal qualities that are not uniquely human to an inanimate object

• the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4