Figure of speech 23 types with example
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Explanation:
. SIMILE
In simile two unlike things are explicitly compared. For example, “She is like a fairy”. A simile is introduced by words such as like, so, as etc.. METAPHOR
It is an informal or implied simile in which words like, as, so are omitted. For example, “He is like a lion (Simile) “and “He is a lion (metaphor)”. In the following examples, metaphors are underlined.
She is a star of our family.
The childhood of the world; the anger of the tempest; the deceitfulness of the riches: wine is a mocker.
She is now in the sunset of her days.
3. PERSONIFICATION
Personification is an attribution of personal nature, intelligence or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions. For example, in some phrases we use, the furious storm, the thirsty ground, and the pitiless cold. Some other examples are:
Little sorrows sit and weep. (Boccaccio)
The dish ran away with the spoon. (Blake)
4. METONYMY
Metonymy is meant for a change of name. It is a substitute of the thing names for the thing meant. Following examples will clarify the concept.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
From the cradle to the grave. = from childhood to death.
I have never read Milton. = the works of Milton.
5. APOSTROPHE
It is a direct address to some inanimate thing or some abstract idea as if it were living person or some absent person as if it were present. Example, “Boy’s mother loved him very much.”