What is
Figure of speech?
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Figure of speech is a
rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive
ways.
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figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning, or a
phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words
in it such as a metaphor, simile, or personification.
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Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity.
Here are
the types of Figure of Speech.
1.Simile:
A stated comparison between two different things that have certain qualities in
common.
Example of
Simile:
2.
Metaphor: An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have
something important in common.
Example of
Metaphor:
3. Personification:
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with
human qualities or abilities.
Example of
Personification:
4. Hyperbole
An extravagant statement or the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose
of emphasis or heightened effect, but not to be taken literally.
of emphasis or heightened effect, but not to be taken literally.
Example of
hyperbole:
5. Irony:
The uses 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.
The uses 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 of
Irony:
6. Antithesis:
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
Example of Antithesis:
Example of Antithesis:
7. Litotes:
Deliberate understatement or denial of the contrary.
Example of Litotes:
Deliberate understatement or denial of the contrary.
Example of Litotes:
8. Paradox:
A statement that appears to contradict itself.
Example of
Paradox:
9. Synecdoche:
A figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole
for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the
material for the thing made from it.
Example of
Synecdoche:
10. Pun:
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes
on the similar sense or sound of different words.
Example of
Pun:
11. Oxymoron:
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by
side.
Example of
Oxymoron:
12.
Understatement: A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately
makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
Example of
Understatement:
13.Parenthesis:
a word, phrase, or sentence inserted as an aside in a sentence complete by
itself.
itself.
Example of
Parenthesis:
"The
English (it must be owned) are rather
a foul-mouthed nation."
a foul-mouthed nation."
14. Apostrophe:
a diversion of discourse from the topic at hand to addressing some person or
thing, either present or absent.
Example of
Apostrophe :
a. "Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again . . .."
a. "Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again . . .."
15. Onomatopoeia:
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the
objects or actions they refer to.
An example
of Onomatopoeia.
