Figurative Language

when the audience or reader knows something that a character does not

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• sarcasm

when a poem says less than what it means

• understatement

• hyperbole

• metonymy

• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

1. an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true

• consonance

• paradox

• assonance

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

1. occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond

• point of view

• syntax

• apostrophe

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

1. a special kind of metaphor that gives human attributes to a nonhuman entity, such as an animal, object, or concept

• conceit

• personification

• metonymy

• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

a comparison made between two things that uses the helping words "like," "as," "than," or "resembles"

• metaphor

• simile

• conceit

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

a discrepancy between actual circumstances and those that would seem appropriate or expected

• sarcasm

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

an overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally

• metonymy

• synecdoche

• enjambment

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

an extended metaphor with complex logic, or a startling comparison, that governs a poetic passage or an entire poem

• onomatopoeia

• enjambment

• caesura

• conceit

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

1. a comparison between two things that does NOT use any helping words

• metaphor

• metonymy

• synecdoche

• satire

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5