FIGURES OF SPEECH

FIGURES OF SPEECH-1

•        Metaphor: In a metaphor, the two things are linked or equated implicitly without using like or as: “Love is a rose but you better not pick it.”

•        Simile: In a simile, the comparison is stated explicitly with the help of a word such as like or as. “My love is like a red, red rose / That's newly sprung in June.”

•        Personification: Personification is a particular type of metaphor that assigns the characteristics of a person to something non-human.

Example: Acer. We hear you.
            (Acer computers)

•        Metonymy: Metonymy makes associations or substitutions. The place name "Hollywood," for example, has become a metonym for the American film industry

•        Apostrophe: Apostrophe addresses not only animates something absent or non-living but also addresses it directly. For example, In “Ode to the West Wind” Shelley addresses the wind.

•        Hyperbole: Hyperbole exaggerates the truth for emphasis. To say that Uncle Wheezer is "older than dirt" is an example of hyperbole.

•        Understatement: Understatement says less and means more. To say that he's "a bit long in the tooth" is probably an understatement.

•        Litotes: Litotes is a type of understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. We might say that he is "not as young as he used to be."

FIGURES OF SPEECH-2

•        Alliteration: Alliteration refers to the repetition of an initial consonant sound. For example, a peck of pickled peppers, Monday Morning, How high his highness holds his haughty head.

•        Assonance: Assonance through the repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighboring words. It is also known as internal rhyming. Example, "Do you like blue?"

•        Consonance: Consonance is a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant in successive words. Example, “all mammals named Sam are clammy”

•        Onomatopoeia: Onomatopoeia refers to words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. Example, "Brrrriiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room”.

•         Anaphora: Anaphora refers to the repetition at the beginning of successive clauses. Example, "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."

•        Antithesis: In an antithesis, contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in balanced phrases or clauses "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing”

•        Paradox: A paradoxical statement appears to contradict itself. Example, “If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness”, “Child is the father of man”

•         Oxymoron: An oxymoron is a compressed paradox in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side. Example, “an open secret”, “act naturally”, “random order”, “original copy”