A figure of speech in which an
explicit comparison is made between two essentially unlike things and usually
using “like” or “as”.
(Ex. Christian eats like a pig.)
2. Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a
word or phrase literally denoting one object or idea is applied to another,
thereby suggesting a likeness or analogy between them.
(Ex. He was a lion in the battlefield.)
3. Personification
A type of metaphor in
which distinctive human characteristics, e.g., honesty, emotion, volition,
etc., are attributed to an animal, object or idea.
(Ex. My car was happy to be washed.)
4. Hyperbole
It is a way of
expressing the excess or exaggerating a thing to such an extent that it becomes
unbelievable.
(Ex. The whole world was staring at me.)
5. Irony
It is humorous or
lightly sarcastic mode of speech. Words are used here to convey a meaning
contrary to their literal meaning.
(Ex. The boy is so intelligent that he failed in all the subjects.)
6. Metonymy
It is a rhetorical
device in which a strong association of a thing is used to represent it.
(Ex. The truck hit me from behind. –The truck hit my car from
behind.)
7. Onomatopoeia
This figure of speech
imitates the sounds produced by the objects or actions.
(Ex. The whirring of the washing machine.)
8. Alliteration
It refers to the
repetition of any particular sound among words placed close together, in a
sentence. These are mainly consonant sounds, but can be vowel sounds too. It is
often used as a figure of speech in poetry.
(Ex. Sara's seven sisters slept soundly in sand.)
9.
Litotes
This figure of speech
refers to the use of understatement, to affirm a particular situation or event
with the use of a negative opposite.
(Ex.
Einstein is not a bad mathematician. - Einstein is a great mathematician.)
10. Rhetoric
This refers to the art of
persuasion through effective speech. Questions that have an obvious answer are
known as rhetorical questions. Such questions are not expected to be answered,
as the answer is already known.
(Ex. If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why
practice? - Billy Corgan)
(This was my assignment in English before. I forgot the sources. Sorry!)
(This was my assignment in English before. I forgot the sources. Sorry!)
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