FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• DICTION
• IMAGERY
• FIGURES OF SPEECH
• PROSODY

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DICTION

• DENOTATION
• dictionary meaning
• objective
• pure form

• CONNOTATION
• emotional meaning
• subjective
• layered from usage

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IMAGERY

• Words which call attention to any of the five
  sensory perceptions sight, sound, touch, smell,
  taste

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FIGURES OF SPEECH

• Simile comparison using like or as
• Metaphor comparison equating one object with
  another
• Personification giving human qualities to
  inanimate object
• Apostrophe addressing absent person or inanimate
  object

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MORE FIGURES OF SPEECH

• Hyperbole bold exaggeration
• Understatement lessening significance
• Metonymy using associative term for object
  (crown for king)
• Synecdoche using part for whole (hands for
  workmen)

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PROSODY

• rhyme scheme method in which lines rhyme,
  including end rhymes slant, off, near, and eye
  rhymes internal rhymes
• meter rhythm patterns for lines of poetry, most
  common of which is iambic pentameter (one
  unaccented syllable followed by one accented
  syllable)
• blank verse unrhymed iambic pentameter
• free verse unrhymed, no regular meter