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A figure of speech is the speech that goes beyond the original literal meaning of words . FOR EXAMPLE
IMAGERY
SIMILE
METAPHOR
ALLITERATION
EXAGGERATION
PERSONIFICATION
ONOMOTOPAEIA
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SIMILE
METAPHOR
ALLITERATION
EXAGGERATION
PERSONIFICATION
ONOMOTOPAEIA
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Figures of Speech
A figure of speech is a word or phrase that has a meaning something different than its literal meaning. It can be a metaphor or simile that is designed to further explain a concept. Or, it can be a different way of pronouncing a word or phrase such as with alliteration to give further meaning or a different sound.
1. Alliteration
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Example: Sally sells seashells.
2. Allusion
The act of alluding is to make indirect reference. It is a literary device, a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words.
Example: David was being such a scrooge!. (Scrooge" is the allusion, and it refers to Charles Dicken's novel, A Christmas Carol. Scrooge was very greedy and unkind, which David was being compared to.)
3. Anaphora
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.)
Example: I came, I saw, I conquered – Julius Caesar
4. Antaclasis
It is a rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun.
Example:
Your argument is sound, nothing but sound. – Benjamin Franklin.
The word sound in the first instance means solid or reasonable. The second instance of sound means empty.
5. Anticlimax
Refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance.
Example:
She is a great writer, a mother and a good humorist.
6. Antiphrasis
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect. From the Greek : anti "opposite" and phrasis, "diction".
Example:
She's so beautiful. She has an attractive long nose.
7. Antithesis
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
Example:
Many are called, but few are chosen.
8. Apostrophe
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
Example:
"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times."
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
9. Assonance
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Example:
"The crumbling thunder of seas" – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Cataphora
Refers to a figure of speech where an earlier expression refers to or describes a forward expression. Cataphora is the opposite of anaphora, a reference forward as opposed to backward in the discourse.
Example:
After he had received his orders, the soldier left the barracks. (he is also a cataphoric reference to the soldier which is mentioned later in the discourse.
11. Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
Example:
He knowingly led and we followed blindly
12. Climax
Refers to a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.
Example:
"There are three things that will endure: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."
1 Corinthians 13:13
13. Dysphemism
Refers to the use of a harsh, more offensive word instead of one considered less harsh. Dysphemism is often contrasted with euphemism. Dysphemisms are generally used to shock or offend.
Example:
Snail mail for postal mail.
14. Ellipsis
Refers to the omission of a word or words. It refers to constructions in which words are left out of a sentence but the sentence can still be understood.
Example:
15. Euphemism
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
Example:
Going to the other side for death
Passed away for die
16. Hyperbole
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Example:
The bag weighed a ton.
17. Irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Example:
His argument was as clear as mud.
18. Litotes
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
Example:
19. Merism
It is a figure of speech by which something is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its constituents or traits.
Example:
Flesh and bone. (Referring to the body).
20. Metaphor
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Example:
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
(William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7)
21. Metaplesis
22. Metonymy
.)
23. Onomatopoeia
24. Oxymoron
25. Paradox
26. Personification
27. Pun
28. Simile
29. Synecdoche
30. Tautology
.
31. Understatement
A figure of speech is a word or phrase that has a meaning something different than its literal meaning. It can be a metaphor or simile that is designed to further explain a concept. Or, it can be a different way of pronouncing a word or phrase such as with alliteration to give further meaning or a different sound.
1. Alliteration
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Example: Sally sells seashells.
2. Allusion
The act of alluding is to make indirect reference. It is a literary device, a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words.
Example: David was being such a scrooge!. (Scrooge" is the allusion, and it refers to Charles Dicken's novel, A Christmas Carol. Scrooge was very greedy and unkind, which David was being compared to.)
3. Anaphora
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.)
Example: I came, I saw, I conquered – Julius Caesar
4. Antaclasis
It is a rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance. Antanaclasis is a common type of pun.
Example:
Your argument is sound, nothing but sound. – Benjamin Franklin.
The word sound in the first instance means solid or reasonable. The second instance of sound means empty.
5. Anticlimax
Refers to a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance.
Example:
She is a great writer, a mother and a good humorist.
6. Antiphrasis
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect. From the Greek : anti "opposite" and phrasis, "diction".
Example:
She's so beautiful. She has an attractive long nose.
7. Antithesis
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
Example:
Many are called, but few are chosen.
8. Apostrophe
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
Example:
"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times."
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 1
9. Assonance
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Example:
"The crumbling thunder of seas" – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. Cataphora
Refers to a figure of speech where an earlier expression refers to or describes a forward expression. Cataphora is the opposite of anaphora, a reference forward as opposed to backward in the discourse.
Example:
After he had received his orders, the soldier left the barracks. (he is also a cataphoric reference to the soldier which is mentioned later in the discourse.
11. Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
Example:
He knowingly led and we followed blindly
12. Climax
Refers to a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.
Example:
"There are three things that will endure: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."
1 Corinthians 13:13
13. Dysphemism
Refers to the use of a harsh, more offensive word instead of one considered less harsh. Dysphemism is often contrasted with euphemism. Dysphemisms are generally used to shock or offend.
Example:
Snail mail for postal mail.
14. Ellipsis
Refers to the omission of a word or words. It refers to constructions in which words are left out of a sentence but the sentence can still be understood.
Example:
15. Euphemism
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
Example:
Going to the other side for death
Passed away for die
16. Hyperbole
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Example:
The bag weighed a ton.
17. Irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Example:
His argument was as clear as mud.
18. Litotes
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
Example:
19. Merism
It is a figure of speech by which something is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its constituents or traits.
Example:
Flesh and bone. (Referring to the body).
20. Metaphor
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
Example:
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
(William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2/7)
21. Metaplesis
22. Metonymy
.)
23. Onomatopoeia
24. Oxymoron
25. Paradox
26. Personification
27. Pun
28. Simile
29. Synecdoche
30. Tautology
.
31. Understatement
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