Academic Vocabulary: Figurative Language RL.8.4

Academic Vocabulary: Figurative Language RL.8.4

By Valarie Riley

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a comparison of two things that uses the words like, as, resemble, or than.

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Analogy

• Simile

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an extended simile or metaphor that shows how two things are similar in two or 

     more ways.

• Analogy

• Irony

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

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writing that shows feelings or thoughts.  It is not meant to be understood literally.

• literal language

• figurative language

• fancy language

• academic vocabulary

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a type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to something 

    non-human

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

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an exaggeration for the sake of emphasis

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

• Symbolism

• Personification

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 a direct comparison between two things without using like or as.

Ex: His brain is a computer.

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Analogy

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 an expression that combines contradictory words, such as cold fire or organized 

     chaos

• Idiom

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

• Personification

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 an expression that means something other than its literal meaning.

• Imagery

• Paradox

• Symbolism

• Idiom

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the use of an object to represent something else

• Paradox

• Symbolism

• Personification

• Allusion

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a situation or a statement that contains seemingly contradictory ideas or go 

     against logic.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Paradox

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 an indirect reference to a person, a piece of literature, a historical event, or another familiar thing

• Symbolism

• Allusion

• Assonance

• Alliteration

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words that appeal to the readers’ senses. It creates images in the reader's mind

• Imagery

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Oxymoron

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a difference between appearance and reality

• Allusion

• Imagery

• Irony

• Onomatopoeia

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exists when the outcome is the opposite of expectations. This irony can be tragic, or it can be funny.

• Irony

• Situational Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Verbal Irony

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the repetition of the beginning sounds of words that are close together.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Allusion

• Pun

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the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are near each other.

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Allusion

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 is a person saying the opposite of what is meant.  It can be the same as sarcasm.

• Allusion

• Verbal Irony

• Situational Irony

• Oxymoron

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occurs when the reader or the audience knows something important that a character doesn’t know.

• Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

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a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.

• Overstatement

• Understatement

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

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a joke or play on words

• Pun

• Paradox

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

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 a word that imitates the natural sound of a thing.

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia