AP LITERARY TERMS#1-- METAPHORICAL DEVICES/IMAGERY:
Quiz: January 19/20, 2017
- Metaphor: Comparison of two seemingly unlike things
- Simile: Comparison using "like" or "as"
- Personification: Characteristics of humans given to non-humans
- Synecdoche: Part that stands for the whole
- Metonymy: Substitution of associated word for word itself
- Allusion: Reference to well-known characters, texts, or events
- Symbol: Is what it is and something more
- Image: Sensory detail
- Archetype: Recurrent image that touches collective subconscious
- Abstract Imagery: Description of qualities that cannot be perceived with the five sense
- Concrete Imagery: Description of qualities that can be seen, heard, felt, smelled, or tasted
- Motif: Recurrent image, idea, or theme in specific piece of literature
Look for the metaphors and imagery in the art, music, and beauty
you see around you every day.
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