Bianca's+Special+Words

This page is dedicated to literary word which you have probobly no idea what they mean. ^_^

1. Apostrophe- the direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition

2. Personification- the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, esp. as a rhetorical figure

3. Synesthesia- a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color

4. Hyperbole- obvious and intentional exaggeration

5. Understatement- restraint or lack of emphasis in expression

6. Litotes- a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite

7. Metonymy- a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated

8. Synecdoche- a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special

9. Paradox- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

10. Oxymoron- a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined

11. Allusion- a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication

12. Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance

13. Simile- a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using like or as

14. Implied Metaphor- a metaphor not explicitly stated or obvious that compares two things by using adjectives that commonly describe one thing, but are used to describe another comparing the two

15. Analogy- similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar