SYNESTHESIA

✘ SYNESTHESIA – poetic act of describing a sense impression using

another sense.
- Hot mess
-icy stare
- cool dress
 LITERAL VS. FIGURATIVE
✘ Literal Language – Exactly ✘ Figurative Language – not
what we say meant literally
Roses are red. Her love is like a rose.
The bell rings at 12:00. Saved by the bell.
The cat stepped out of the bag. Let the cat out of the bag.
The flower smells sweet. You are the sweetest-smelling
flower.
DIFFERENT
KINDS OF
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE
✘ Simile- explicitly states comparison using “like”,
“as”, “such as”, and “seems” to show similarity.

✘ Metaphor- assert two things are identical.

✘ Metonymy-substituted word for another that is

closely associated to it.

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✘ Synecdoche- a part of something that represents for
the whole

✘ Personification- animal, object, or abstract idea is

given human characteristics

✘ Irony- contrast between what is expected and what

actually happens

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 TYPES OF IRONY

✘ Verbal Irony – sarcastic

✘ Dramatic Irony- reader knows information that the

character in the story do not
✘ Situational Irony- outcome is differ to expectation

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✘ Hyperbole- Exaggerated

✘ Paradox- contradictory but revels some truth

✘ Idiomatic Expression- using idioms. Group of words

whose meaning cannot be deduced from individual
part.

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✘ Euphemisms- less harsh way of stating

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