AP Language and Composition Test Study Guide - Figurative Language Part 1

created by the class members of AP Language and Composition taught at Salina Central by Mrs. Leech

1.Concrete Language- a description of observable objects or people that can be gained through senses unlike ideas and feelings
2.Sensory Details- details received through the 5 senses
3.Metaphor- a comparison of two objects
4.Simile- form of a metaphor that uses like or as to compare two objects
5.Conceit- an extended metaphor
6.Analogy- comparison or similarity between 2 like objects
7.Argument by analogy- it is said that since 2 objects have similar traits then they most likely have another trait in common too, fallacy
8.Personification-Attribution of personal quality to inanimate objects or abstract ideas
9.Metonymy-use of one name to represent another object associated with it
10.Synecdoche- represents part of the object by naming its whole or vice versa
11.Anecdote- a short funny story
12.Apostrophe-A person or thing that is addressed is absent
13.Onomatopoeia- verbalizing or writing a sound
14.Oxymoron- a figure of speech by which you are putting two contradictory words together

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[APLanguageCentral]

Many dead metaphors are clichés certainly; however, some dead metaphors are so common we don't even recognize those phrases as metaphor or clichés, they've just become part of the language. Much of our current vernacular could be traced to metaphor, some theories would say almost all language is in some way metaphorical, and it is hard to follow the same train of thought to think much of our language is cliché. The two terms intertwine quite a bit, but should be kept with distinctions.

[RainbowManification]

Wouldn't a dead metaphor also be cliche?