{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/la-figurative-language",
 "id": "la-figurative-language",
 "title": "Figurative Language Terms",
 "category": "language-arts",
 "subject": "English",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "The tools writers use to say more than the literal meaning.",
 "tags": [
  "figurative language",
  "literary devices"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Term",
 "backLabel": "Definition and example",
 "cards": [
  [
   "simile",
   "A comparison using like or as: fast as lightning"
  ],
  [
   "metaphor",
   "A comparison saying one thing is another: time is a thief"
  ],
  [
   "personification",
   "Giving human traits to non-human things: the wind whispered"
  ],
  [
   "hyperbole",
   "Extreme exaggeration: I have a million things to do"
  ],
  [
   "idiom",
   "A phrase with a meaning different from its words: break the ice"
  ],
  [
   "onomatopoeia",
   "A word that sounds like its meaning: buzz, boom"
  ],
  [
   "alliteration",
   "Repeating a starting consonant sound: Peter Piper picked"
  ],
  [
   "assonance",
   "Repeating vowel sounds inside words: the rain in Spain"
  ],
  [
   "consonance",
   "Repeating consonant sounds inside or at the end: pitter-patter"
  ],
  [
   "imagery",
   "Words that appeal to the senses: the sweet smell of bread"
  ],
  [
   "symbolism",
   "Using an object to stand for an idea: a dove for peace"
  ],
  [
   "irony",
   "When the opposite of what you expect happens or is said"
  ],
  [
   "verbal irony",
   "Saying the opposite of what you mean: Lovely weather! (in a storm)"
  ],
  [
   "situational irony",
   "When the outcome is the reverse of what was expected"
  ],
  [
   "dramatic irony",
   "When the audience knows something the characters do not"
  ],
  [
   "oxymoron",
   "Two opposite words together: deafening silence"
  ],
  [
   "paradox",
   "A statement that seems false but contains truth: less is more"
  ],
  [
   "allusion",
   "A reference to a well-known person, event or work"
  ],
  [
   "pun",
   "A joke using a word with two meanings or similar sounds"
  ],
  [
   "understatement",
   "Making something seem less important than it is"
  ],
  [
   "euphemism",
   "A gentle word for something unpleasant: passed away"
  ],
  [
   "cliché",
   "An overused phrase: only time will tell"
  ],
  [
   "foreshadowing",
   "Hints about what will happen later"
  ],
  [
   "flashback",
   "A scene that goes back to an earlier time"
  ],
  [
   "analogy",
   "A comparison to explain or clarify an idea"
  ],
  [
   "anaphora",
   "Repeating words at the start of lines or sentences"
  ],
  [
   "apostrophe",
   "Speaking to someone absent or a thing: O Death, be not proud"
  ],
  [
   "juxtaposition",
   "Placing two things side by side for contrast"
  ],
  [
   "metonymy",
   "Naming something by something linked to it: the crown for the king"
  ],
  [
   "synecdoche",
   "A part standing for the whole: all hands on deck"
  ],
  [
   "tone",
   "The writer's attitude toward the subject"
  ],
  [
   "mood",
   "The feeling a reader gets from a text"
  ],
  [
   "repetition",
   "Using the same word or phrase for emphasis"
  ],
  [
   "hyperbaton",
   "Changing normal word order for effect"
  ],
  [
   "antithesis",
   "Putting opposite ideas in balanced phrases: to err is human; to forgive, divine"
  ],
  [
   "chiasmus",
   "Reversing the order of words in two phrases: ask not what your country can do for you"
  ],
  [
   "rhetorical question",
   "A question asked for effect, not for an answer"
  ],
  [
   "sarcasm",
   "Saying the opposite of what you mean to mock or tease"
  ],
  [
   "satire",
   "Using humor to point out foolishness in society"
  ],
  [
   "parody",
   "A funny imitation of a work"
  ],
  [
   "colloquialism",
   "Informal everyday language"
  ],
  [
   "dialect",
   "A way of speaking particular to a region or group"
  ],
  [
   "connotation",
   "The feelings a word suggests beyond its dictionary meaning"
  ],
  [
   "denotation",
   "The dictionary meaning of a word"
  ],
  [
   "literal language",
   "Words that mean exactly what they say"
  ],
  [
   "figurative language",
   "Words used in a way that goes beyond the literal meaning"
  ],
  [
   "mixed metaphor",
   "Combining two metaphors in a confusing way"
  ],
  [
   "extended metaphor",
   "A metaphor carried through many lines"
  ]
 ]
}