Figures of Speech - Poetry
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- something from outside brought into ourselves through the senses
- image
- an image that is clearly real and solid
- concrete
- an image meant to represent something else
- abstract
- a prose meaning of a text
- paraphrase
- a poem that directly expresses the emotion of its speaker
- lyric
- a poem that expresses itself self-consciously, in a longer form than a lyric
- ode
- a comparison using "like" or "as"
- simile
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a comparison not using "like" or "as"
We transfer from one thing the identity of another that we associate with it. - metaphor
- if A is like B, then C is like D
- analogy
- interpretation of data of one sense in terms of another
- synesthesia
- an incomplete reference that those who share our knowledge will understand
- allusion
- giving an inanimate object human characteristics
- personification
- stories that use personification to explain things
- mythology
- "a part for the whole"
- synecdoche
- referring to something with a name associated with it
- metonymy
- an image that stands for more than it denotes
- symbol
- a narrative in which characters and their actions stand for ideas on a different level
- allegory
- statement that implies a contradiction
- paradox
- linking opposite words with different meanings
- oxymoron
- directing attention to a play of opposites
- irony
- an image that is not directly or entirely given
- withheld image
- asserting a truth while denying the opposite
- litotes
- dramatic overstatement
- hyperbole