Figurative Languages

 Figurative Languages

Adjective

A Describing Word

Adnoun

A word that is Adjective but also Noun

Adverb

Describes more about the Verb

Allegory

A story or picture that refer with meaning

Alliteration

Alliteration: Words that start with the same letter

Plosive: P or B sounds

Sibliance: S Sounds

Fricative: F or Ph Sounds

Nasal: N or M  Sounds

Allusion

Indirect reference to Text

Anadiplosis

Reptition of last word with a clause

Anagnorisis

Point in a play or novel 

Anagram

Word or Phrase rearranging letter

Anaphora

Reptition of Word or Phrase in Group Sentence

Anecdote

A short story

Anthropomorphism

Human behaviour referred to Animal

Anticlimax  AAA

The most Disapointing part

Antithesis

Words that start with the same letter

Aphorism

Observation comtaning general truth

Archetype

A very typical example of a certain thing

Assonance

Sounds between nearby words or phrases

Breaking The Fourth Wall AAA

When a character looks at you on the screen 

Cacophony

Mixture of sounds

Caesura

Break between words without a metrical foot

Catalyst AAA

Increase rate of reaction

Catharsis

Releasing strong or repressed emotions 

Cliffhanger

A dramatic ending 

Climax

Most intense or exciting part 

Colloquialism / Colloquial Language

Words in the form of Slang

Comparison

To show the differnet

Complex Sentence

One Independent Clause and one Dependent Clause

Compound Sentence

TwoIndependent Clauses and coordinating conjunctions 

Conflict

A serious disagreement

Conjunction

A word use to connect a cluase

Connective

A word to connect to sentence

Connotation

What’s said in speech marks

Consonance

An agreement to an opinion 

Contrastive Pairs

Two pairs of words that are same

Cyclical Structure

Beginning and End of text are the same words

Deductive AAA

Logical process of conclusion set from premises

Delusion AAA

False belief based on incorrect inference about external reality

Denouement

Publicly declare to be wrong or evil

Deus Ex Machina

Unexpected power or event saying seemingly hopeless situation

Dilemma

Situations are it’s difficult to choose a choice that has been made between two ro more alternatives 

Direct Address

Speaking directly to an individual or group

Embedded Quotation

Quotations from your source fit smoothly into sentence

Emotive Language

The way you write shows emotion

Enjambment

Continuation of sentence or phrase from one line to next line

Euphemism AAA

Indirect word considered too harsh referees to something embarrassing

Example 

To show what you are talking about 

Exclamatory Style

Using Exclamation marks to make your sentences look more powerful

Exposition

Explanation of an Idea

First Person

You are talking

Foil AAA

To prevent from attaining an end

Foreboding

Feeling of something bad would happen

Foreshadowing

Warning of something bad would happen

Free Space AAA

To show a space

Genitive AAA

Noun case which is used mainly to show possession

Half Rhyme

Two words that have first consonance or sounds

Homophone

Two different words pronounced the same with two different meaning

Homonym

Two different words same spelling different meaning 

Hyperbole

Exaggerated sentence claims to not be taken literally

Hypophora

Figure of speech where writer raises a question and instantly answers 

Idiom AAA

A phrase representing a figurative

 

Imagery AAA

Word’s described so well you can imagine them

Imperative Language AAA

Followed step by step 

 

Imperative Mood AAA

English grammar inflicts strong request 

Inductive

Characterised by inference of law in certain topics 

In Media Res

In the midst of things 

Interjection AAA

A word that is written in a way to make sound effects

Internal Rhyme

Rhymes appearing every verse

Irony

A word doesn’t have to always be interpreted it’s meaning

Isocolon

Figure of speech having parallel structured formed two or more clause 

Juxtaposition

Opposite things put in one

Litotes

Ironic understatement expressed negative contraries 

Manifesto

Publish declaration of policies

Metalepsis

The Shift of a figure within a text 

Metaphor

A thing compared to two different objects 

Metonymy

Figure of Speech consisting use of the name 

Mood

A temporary state of mind of feeling 

Motif

Important, noticeable element, feature, typically appears in work

Neologism

A new form of Expression

Noun

Refers to an object or place or thing

Onomatopoeia

A form of word sounding powerful

Oxymoron

Two things that don’t go together 

Palindrome

Words spelt backwards and it’s the same

Pangram

Words contains all letters of alphabet

Paradox

The opposite phrases are contradictory 

Pathetic Fallacy

Having emotions for inanimate objects 

Pejorative

Word expressing a disapproval 

Personification

A thing described in a person’s view 

Poetic Justice

Experience justice for one action

Portmanteau

A fusion between two words

Prefix

A word, letter, number placed before another

Preposition

Group of words used to phrase time, place, location

Pronoun

Describe more about noun 

Prose

Written in spoken language

Proverb

1Words that start with the same letter

Pun

To play with words 

Rebuttal

A denial of a sentence

Red Herring AAA

A misleading statement to answer an important question 

Relative

Considered relation of one proportion

Repetition

A repeat in a word

Rhetorical Question

Words that start with the same letter

Rhyme

Ending of a word that sounds similar

Rhythm

A pattern throughout it’s words

Semantic Field AAA

A group catergorized with same word 

Simile

Compared to something, Like or As

Statistics

A mathematical percentage to make up it’s value

Structure

The way a sentence is formed 

Subjunction AAA

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Subjunctive

Relating to a mood or verb expressing 

Subordinate Clauses

A clause added in sentence to complete information 

Suffix

A word of a word or noun, verb and adjective 

Syllepsis

A single sentence constructed in Verb or Adjectives

Symbolism

Use of symbolis

Synecdoche

Figure of speech representing whole vice versa

Thesis Statement AAA

Agree or Disagree to open a sentence 

Third Person

Seen in the observational view

Triplets / The Rule of Three  AAA

Set or succession of three similar things

Verb

Words that start with the same letter

Volta

A turn 

Zoomorphism

Art that imagines humans as non human animals