AP Lang Terms Set 3

A comparison of one pair of things to a parallel set of things. Used to argue that the relationship between one set is the same relationship between the second set.

• figurative language

• analogy

• hyperbole

• metaphore

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Writing that is not meant to be take literally.

• mood

• oxymoron

• figurative language

• motif

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

exaggeration

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

• idiom

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Making an implied comparison, not using like, as, or other such words

• simile

• metonymy

• metaphor

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Re placing an actual word or idea with a related word or concept. Ex. "I could not understand his tongue."

• personification

• Synthesia

• metonymy

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, or vice versa. " Check out my new wheels."

• synecodoche

• simlie

• synthesia

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Using words such as like or as to make a direct comparison between two different things.

• simile

• metaphor

• analogy

• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A description involving a "crossing of senses". A purplish scent filled the room."

• synecdoche

• synesthesia

• metonymy

• mood

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

giving human-like qualities to something that is not human.

• personification

• mood

• oxymoron

• analogy

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4