Figurative Speech(New o7)

8/4/2019 Figurative Speech(New o7)

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A way of saying

something other than

literal meaning of the

words.


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More commonly known as figure of

speech

An expression that uses language in a

nonliteral

way, such as a metaphor or

synecdoche,

or in a structured or unusual

way, such as anaphora or chiasmus, or that

employs sounds, such as alliteration or

assonance, to achieve a rhetorical effect.


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It also termed as a rhetoric or a locution

It departs from straightforward, literal

meaning

Figurative speech is often used and

crafted for emphasis, freshness or to

explain further on a certain

subject(clarity).


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There are many different types of

FIGURATIVE language.

A figurative

statement will use various figur

es of

speech to enhance its meaning.

A

LITERAL statement is a sentence

in

which every word has its usual and

exact meaning.


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Alliteration

Hyperbole

Metaphor

Personification

Simile


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Alliteration is the repetition of

sounds, consonants, or

vowels usually at the

beginning of words in a

sentence.


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Bobbroke Brad's bat

Walter washed Winnie's window.

Stan the man ran away. Charles challenged Chassidy to a cha cha

contest.


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A hyperbole is an exaggeration not

intended to deceive the reader but as an

expression of humour. Deliberate overstatement not intended

to be taken literally, it is used as a

means of emphasizing the truth of astatement.


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I told you a million times to...

I have such a bad headache I think my head isgoing to explode.

His arms dangled a mile out of his shirt.


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The woman was a tigress in defense of herchildren.

His laughter was thunder to the child.

The factory smoke was a dirty puff of cotton.

The wind was a hurt animal when it howled.

Screaming headlines

It stirred our emotions

Life is a lark.


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Personification is giving human

characteristics to non-human

(inanimate) objects. Where a person represents some

quality, thing or idea.


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The trees whispered my names. (the trees are

compared to things a person does -- whisper)

The ocean invited me closer. (people invite)

The angry ocean attacked the ships.

The sleeping willows bowed down their heads.

The campfires smoke danced around us.

A wind in the forest snag as we walked.


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A simile is a comparison between two unlike

things using the words "like", "as if", or "as

A figure of speech in which a comparison is

expressed by the specific use of a word or

phrase such as: like, as, than, seems


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When angry, Lucy is like a cyclone.

His laughter was as loud as thunder.

The wind howled as if it were a hurt animal. The factory smoke was like a dirty puff of

cotton.


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The deliberate repetition of a word

or phrase at the beginning of several

successive verses, clauses, orparagraphs.


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"We shall fight on the beaches, we

shall fight on the landing grounds,

we shall fight in the fields and in thestreets, we shall fight in the hills"

(Winston S. Churchill)


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ANOTHER TYPES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

AnaphoraRepetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses orverses.

AntithesisThe juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.

ApostropheBreaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstractquality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.

AssonanceIdentity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.

ChiasmusA verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against thefirst but with the parts reversed.
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EuphemismThe substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensivelyexplicit.

IronyThe use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A

statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by theappearance or presentation of the idea.

LitotesA figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmativeis expressed by negating its opposite.

MetonymyA figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for anotherwith which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy ofdescribing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
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OnomatopoeiaThe formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions theyrefer to.

OxymoronA figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.

Paradox

A statement that appears to contradict itself.

PunA play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similarsense or sound of different words.

SynechdocheA figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specificfor the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it.

UnderstatementA figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less importantor serious than it is.
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