This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech. It discusses similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophes, hyperboles, euphemisms, parables, fables, antitheses, epigrams, irony, oxymorons, paradoxes, puns, metonymy, synecdoche, climaxes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, identical statements, periphrases, assonance, anticlimax, innuendos, playing upon words, exclamations, and interrogations. These figures of speech involve using words or phrases in non-literal ways to convey meaning or create rhetorical effects.
This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech. It discusses similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophes, hyperboles, euphemisms, parables, fables, antitheses, epigrams, irony, oxymorons, paradoxes, puns, metonymy, synecdoche, climaxes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, identical statements, periphrases, assonance, anticlimax, innuendos, playing upon words, exclamations, and interrogations. These figures of speech involve using words or phrases in non-literal ways to convey meaning or create rhetorical effects.
This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech. It discusses similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophes, hyperboles, euphemisms, parables, fables, antitheses, epigrams, irony, oxymorons, paradoxes, puns, metonymy, synecdoche, climaxes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, identical statements, periphrases, assonance, anticlimax, innuendos, playing upon words, exclamations, and interrogations. These figures of speech involve using words or phrases in non-literal ways to convey meaning or create rhetorical effects.
This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech. It discusses similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophes, hyperboles, euphemisms, parables, fables, antitheses, epigrams, irony, oxymorons, paradoxes, puns, metonymy, synecdoche, climaxes, onomatopoeia, alliteration, identical statements, periphrases, assonance, anticlimax, innuendos, playing upon words, exclamations, and interrogations. These figures of speech involve using words or phrases in non-literal ways to convey meaning or create rhetorical effects.
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FIGURES OF SPEECH
SIMILE- it is a latin word means “like”. In simile two things or actions are interlinked.
METAPHOR – is an implied comparison without the use of any comparative word.
PERSONIFICATION – it is called a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality)
APOSTROPHE- is the address of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically.
HYPERBOLE- it is a figure of speech in which exaggeration of word is made on a statement in order to
create impressiveness.
EUPHEMISM- By using a euphemism, we speak in a softened and milder form to give the expression of unpleasant thing.
PARABLE- it is a short fictitious story that illustrates a moral attitude or a religious principle.
FABLE- it is a legendary show that tells about the happenings of something supernatural. In the fable, animals speak and act like a human beings.
ANTITHESIS- the rhetorical contrast of idea by means of parallel arrangement of words, clauses or sentences.
EPIGRAM- it is closely related to antithesis. It is used in apparently contradicting words and indicates some important hidden meaning.
IRONY- it is a figure of speech that is used to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.
OXYMORON- it is a figure of speech in which two contradictory or incongruous words are combined together in order to create an effect. Such as cruel, kindness.
PARADOX- it is statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.
PUN- usually use a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.
METONYMY- consists of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated.
SYNECDOCHE- it is a figure of speech in which a part is used for a whole or the whole is used for the part.
CLIMAX- a figure of speech in which a series of phrases or sentences is arranged ascending order or rhetorical forcefulness.
ONOMATOPOEIA- the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it ( such as buzz and hiss). ALLITERATION- it happens when words that starts with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence.
IDENTICAL STATEMENT- this figure of speech is an indirect mode of describing the fact that is not appearing on the surface.
PERIPHRASES- it is a used of longer phrasing in place of possible shorter form of expression.
ASSONANCE- the resemblance of sounds in words or syllables is called assonance. It is relatively close juxtaposition of similar sounds, especially of vowels.
ANTICLIMAX- this is a figure of speech that is opposite to climax to climax. It is a descent from upward to downward, from the sublime to ridiculous.
INNUENDO OR INSINUATION- instead of plainly stating the thing when it is implied, the effect is sometimes much different.
PLAY UPON WORDS- in this figure of speech we use the same word in different shades of meaning within the same sentence.
EXCCLAMATION- it is the figure of speech in which strong expression or feeling is used to draw greater attention to a point than a mere bald statement of it could do.
INTERRROGATION- it is rhetorical mean to ask a question, not for the sake of getting an answer, but put point for creating a profound effect.
