eng9 figures of speech
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FIGURES OF SPEECH
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• Authors often use figures of speech in both literature and poetry to enhance their writing.
• Figures of speech present ordinary things in new or unusual ways.
• They communicate ideas that go beyond the words' usual, literal meanings.
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They run like the wind.
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The snow is as thick as a blanket.
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1. Simile• compares two unlike objects
through the use of as or like
Other examples:a. His temper was as
explosive as a volcano.b. You are acting like a baby.
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He is as light as a feather.
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His skin is like a rose.
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Life is a roller coaster.
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2. Metaphor
•compares two unlike objects without the use of like or as
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Her lovely voice was music to his ears.
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Other examples:
a. I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John. 14:16)
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b. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. (Psalm 18:2)
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c. I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will not hunger, and he who believes in me will never thirst. (John 6:35)
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________ is a race car.
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My pulse is a race car.
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_____ were fireflies.
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Her eyes were fireflies.
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The stars in the clear night sky winked at me.
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3. Personification
• gives human traits or characteristics to inanimate objects
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This city never sleeps.
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Other examples:
a. The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.
b. The fire swallowed the entire forest.
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The tulips nodded their heads in the breeze.
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The flower is begging for water.
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I'd move mountain for her.
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His smile was a smile wide.
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4. Hyperbole• is a deliberate exaggeration
Examples:a. I ate so much last night, I
must weigh more than a whale.
b. Your backpack weighs a ton!
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Suddenly the room filled with a deafening silence.
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5. Oxymoron
•composed of a pair of contradictory words
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Examples:
a.My trip to Bali was very much a working holiday.
b.We laughed and cried through the tragic comedy.
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c. Parting is such sweet sorrow.
d. He has become an extremely unpopular celebrity.
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Other examples:
bitter sweetsilent screamsame differencegenuine immitation
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In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear:
— William Blake, London
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6. Anaphora
- consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis
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Examples:
a. Every day, every night, in every way, I am getting better and better.
b. “My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration.
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O Wind, if Winter comes,
Can Spring be far behind?
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7. Apostrophe
- some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding
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Examples:
a. Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
(John Keats, "Bright Star")
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b. Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief.
[(Queen Isabel in Edward II by Christopher Marlowe)]
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