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Identify the Figure of Speech...
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Inversion
Metonymy
Pun
Apostrophe
Paradox
Oxymoron
Irony
Epigram
Climax
Anti-climax
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- The apostrophe is a figure by which the speaker addresses some inanimate thing or some abstract idea as if it were a living person, or some absent person as if it/he were present.
- e.g.
- (1) O Luxury I thou curst by Heaven’s decree. How ill exchanged are joys like these to thee!
- (2) Come back to me, O Helen, in the pride of thy beauty.
- The paradox is a figure of speech in which a truth is conveyed under the form of an apparent absurdity or contradiction. e.g. The child is the father of the man.
- Other Examples :
- (i) There is no one so poor as a wealthy miser.
- (ii) The greater the truth, the greater the libel.
- (iii) Virtue is for the most part only self-love in disguise.
- (iv) There’the richest was the poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.
- (v) The richest heritage a young man can be born to,
- (vi) We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure.
- (vii) The more things a man is ashamed of, ir.e more respectable he is.
- (viii) He is the best teacher who teaches nothing.
- (ix) Whosoever loseth his life shall find it.
- (x) The king is dead, long live the King.
Oxymoron is a figure of which two contradictory qualities are predicated of the same thing at once. An adjective is added to a word of quite a contrary meaning.
e.g. She accepted it as the kind cruelty of the surgeon’s knife.
- (x) He is all fault, who hath no fault at all.
3. ) Irony
The irony is the use of words, the natural meaning of which is just the opposite of what is intended to be expressed. By this figure, therefore, we say one thing but mean just the opposite.
e.g. For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all honourable men.
Other Examples :
(i) A very fine friend you are to forsake me in my trouble.
(ii) He left me to the tender mercies of my enemy.
(iii) He was the cleverest general that.ever
4.
) Euphemism
Euphemism is a figure by means of which we speak in pleasing or favourable terms of an unpleasant or bad thing.
e.g. He has gone the way of all flesh.
5. ) Metonymy
Metonymy: This means “a change of name” and is so called because in this figure a thing is spoken of not by its own name, but by the name of some conspicuous accompaniment.
e.g. (1) You must address the chair.
(2) The pen is mightier than the sword.
(3) The conquerors smote the city.
(4) Swiftly flies the feathered death.
(5) We have read Milton
(6) He is our pride.
6. ) Climax
The climax is a figure in which the sense rises by successive steps to what is more and more important and impressive.
e.g. (1) I came, I saw. I conquered
(2)
(4) Anti-Climax or Bathos
This is the opposite to Climax and signifies a ludicrous descent from the higher to the lower.
e.g. (1) The soldier fights for glory and a shilling a day.
(2) For thy sake, dear Helen, ! would do anything any die.
7. 1) A Pun
A Pun is a play upon words
e.g. (1) Not on thy sole, on thy soul, harsh Jew.
(2) Nell of Troy was the death knell of Troy.
8 1) A Pun
A Pun is a play upon words
e.g. (1) Not on thy sole, on thy soul, harsh Jew.
(2) Nell of Troy was the death knell of Troy.
9.) Antithesis
In Antithesis, a striking opposition of contrast of words or feelings is made in the same sentence. It is employed to secure emphasis.
e.g.
(1) Man proposes God disposes of.
(2) As is the sunset to an evening sky, so was Helen’s beauty to Troy before its downfall.
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