ELT Terms, Spring 2025

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Figurative Language

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Term describing words that are used in ways that depart conspicuously from their literal applications to achieve a specific meaning or effect. These include figures of thought and figures of speech.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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Literal Language

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Language that means exactly what it says without embellishment.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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Figures of Thought

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Rhetorical figures that involve a deviation from the ordinary pattern or arrangement of words.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

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Tropes

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Figures of speech with an unexpected twist in the meaning of words.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

CCSS.L.11-12.5

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Simile

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A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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Subtext

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The underlying or implicit meaning in dialogue or text.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.6

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Personification

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Attributing human characteristics to non-human entities.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. "Blue collar," for example, refers to manual laborers.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted with another with which it's closely associated. "The throne" can refer to the king of a country, for example.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.5A