English- Vocab Quiz 2 "Unit 1"

allegory

a type of extended metaphor that forms a story with two levels of meaning, a literal and an implied

metonymy

an expression in which a related thing stands for the thing itself

synecdoche

using a part of something to stand for the whole

personification

giving human characteristics to somethings that is not human

apostrophe

a speaker or writer directly addressing an absent person, abstraction, or inanimate objects

paradox

a statement that seems to be self-contradictory yet actually makes sense when understood in the right context

conceit

a type of comparison that draws a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things

imagery

descriptive words or phrases that appeal to sense perceptions in order to create an impression