FHS Figurative Language Review Part II

giving human qualities or characteristics to nonhuman
objects

• cliche'

• understatement

• parallelism

• personification

a commonly used expression that has an implied
meaning that is not literal

• metaphor

• idiom

• alliteration

• flashback

deemphasizing something in order to
make its importance less than

• idiom

• understatement

• oxymoron

• assonance

a play on words that are similar in sound but different in meaning

• diction

• mood

• pun

• repetition

an extreme exaggeration for rhetorical effect

• figurative languagae

• hyperbole

• oxymoron

• juxtaposition

the repeating of a beginning sound, not letter, in a series of
words

• parallelism

• repetition

• alliteration

• assonance

a general feeling that is created by the tone, usually described in
expressions of feeling and emotions

• tone

• diction

• anecdote

• mood

descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five
senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch

• figurative language

• imagery

• cliche'

• foreshadowing

the use of subtle details or clues which hint at
upcoming events in a novel

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• oxymoron

• understatement

a writer presents events from the past
within a narration of current events

• sensory description

• hyperbole

• flashback

• foreshadowing