Question

how many figure of speech are there ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Figures of speech are generally classified in five major categories:

(1) figures of resemblance or relationship (e.g., simile, metaphor, kenning)

(2) figures of emphasis or understatement(e.g., hyperbole, litotes,)

(3) figures of sound (e.g, alliteration, repetition, anaphora, onomatopoeia)

(4) verbal games and gymnastics (e.g., pun and anagram)

(5) errors (e.g., malapropism, periphrasis, and spoonerism)

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Answer 2

Answer:

in European languages, figure of speech are generally classified in five major categories:

figures of resemblance of relationship example:simile ,metapur, kenning, conceit ,parallelism ,personification, metonymy ,synecdoche,and euphemisms);

2) figures of emphasis or understatement(example hyperbole, litotes