TOP 20 FIGURE OF SPEECH
1.ALLITERATION
Repetition of an initial consonant sound.
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
3.ANTITHESES
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
4. APOSTROPHE
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
That the small rain down can rain?"
5.ASSONANCE
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea."
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
9.IRONY
The use 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.
10.LITOTES
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
But none, I think, do there embrace."
11.METAPHOR
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
13.ONOMATOPOEIA
The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime."
14.OXYMORON
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
A statement that appears to contradict itself.
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole (for example, ABCsfor alphabet) or the whole for a part ("Englandwon the World Cup in 1966″).
A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
The Top 20 Figures of Speech
Alliteration
Repetition of an initial consonant sound.
"The daily diary of the American dream."
(slogan of The Wall Street Journal)
Anaphora
Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
· "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."
(Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely)
Antithesis
The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.
· "You're easy on the eyes
Hard on the heart."
(Terri Clark)
· "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
(Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
Apostrophe
Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.
· "Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own."
(Lorenz Hart, "Blue Moon")
· "I believe it is the lost wisdom of my grandfather
Whose ways were his own and who died before I could ask.
"Forerunner, I would like to say, silent pilot,
Little dry death, future,
Your indirections are as strange to me
As my own. I know so little that anything
You might tell me would be a revelation."
(W.S. Merwin, "Sire")
· "O stranger of the future!
O inconceivable being!
Assonance
Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words.
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless."
(Thin Lizzy, "With Love")
Chiasmus
A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
· "Nice to see you, to see you, nice!"
(British TV entertainer Bruce Forsyth)
· "You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
(Cormac McCarthy, The Road, Knopf, 2006)
· "I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me."
(Ovid)
· "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
(William Shakespeare, Macbeth I.i)
· "Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good."
(Samuel Johnson)
Euphemism
The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit.
· Pre-owned for used or second-hand; enhanced interrogation for torture; wind for belch or fart; convenience fee for surcharge
Hyperbole
An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
· "Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together."
(Kent Brockman, The Simpsons)
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!"
Irony
The use 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.
· "It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, launder became a dirty word."
(William Zinsser)
· "I'm aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decry it."
(Sideshow Bob, The Simpsons)
Litotes
A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
· The grave's a fine a private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace."
(Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress")
· "We are not amused."
(attributed to Queen Victoria)
· "I'm not doing this for my health."
(O.J. Simpson, in a paid appearance at a horror comic book convention
Metaphor
An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.
"The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner."
(Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")
Metonymy
A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it.
such as "crown" for "royalty"). Metonymy is also the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, such as describing someone's clothing to characterize the individual.
"Detroit is still hard at work on an SUV that runs on rain forest trees and panda blood."
(Conan O'Brien)
"The B.L.T. left without paying."
(waitress referring to a customer)
Onomatopoeia
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Plop
Pow
Wow
Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.
"act naturally," "original copy," "found missing," "alone together," "peace force," "definite possibility," "terribly pleased," "real phony," "ill health," "turn up missing," "jumbo shrimp," "alone together," "pretty ugly"
Paradox
A statement that appears to contradict itself.
·
· "War is peace."
"Freedom is slavery."
"Ignorance is strength."
(George Orwell, 1984)
· "There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."
(Joseph Heller, Catch-22)
· "Paradox of Success: the more successful a policy is in warding off some unwanted condition the less necessary it will be thought to maintain it. If a threat is successfully suppressed, people naturally wonder why we should any longer bother with it."
(James Piereson, "On the Paradox of Success." Real Clear Politics, Sep. 11, 2006)
· "Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
(C.S. Lewis to his godchild, Lucy Barfield, to whom he dedicated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Personification
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.
· "Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there."
(proverb quoted by Christopher Moltisanti, The Sopranos)
Pun
A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words.
· "When it pours, it reigns."
(slogan of Michelin tires)
· "What food these morsels be!"
(slogan of Heinz pickles, 1938)
· "American Home has an edifice complex."
(slogan of American Home magazine)
· "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight"
(Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night")
· "Look deep into our ryes."
(slogan of Wigler's Bakery)
· "Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted."
(Fred Allen)
· A vulture boards a plane, carrying two dead possums. The attendant looks at him and says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger."
Simile
A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.
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. (form of metonymy)
· 9/11
· white-collarcriminals
Understatement
A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.
"I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."
(Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye, by J. D. Salinger)
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Some of the speech devices that describe mosquito buzzing is an onomatopoeia. These devices describe the sounds made by various objects.
The figures of speech in the poem are rhyme, personification, diction, and imagery.
See Related LinksSee the Related Links for "Figures of Speech Explained" to the bottom for the answer. The main figures of speech types are: Tropes, Metaplasmic Figures, Figures of Omission, Figures of Repetition, Figures of Unusual Word Order and Figures of Thought.1 simile2 metaphor3 hyperbole4 personification5 apostrophy6 synecdoche7 onomatopeia8 alliteration9 irony10 analogy11 oxymoron12 paradox13 metonomy14 euphemism15 anthitesis
figures of speech used in iliad book 7
It is not a figure of speech. It is the name for the field of science dealing with flight.
Alliteration, hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, idiom, I don't know the last three examples are to much typing
Some of the speech devices that describe mosquito buzzing is an onomatopoeia. These devices describe the sounds made by various objects.
A figure of speech is a word or phrase that goes beyond its literal meaning. Eight examples of figures of speech include simile, metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia, irony, and sarcasm.
The eight parts of English speech, and examples are:verb: run, isnoun: house, childpronoun: he, sheadjective: small, ball-shaped (modifies a noun or pronoun)adverb: quickly, unfortunately (modifies other figures of speech)preposition: of, withoutconjunction: and, wheninterjection: yikes!, egads!Remember, a part of speech defines how a word is used, not what the word means.
One figure of speech that has been found in Oliver Twistis comparision. In fact, you can find many examples in the book.[WIP]
This song is known for its inclusion of metaphors and similes. There are quite a few metaphors, but one of the most imaginative similes is the line: "Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letterbox." There are many other examples of 'figures of speech' in the lyrics.
"Where the Rainbow Ends" does not have any recognized figures of speech as it is not a well-known literary work. It's possible that the author, Richard Rime, has employed various literary devices such as metaphors, similes, or personification to enhance the poetic imagery and storytelling in the piece. However, without specific examples from the text, it's difficult to identify the figures of speech used.
what are the figures of speech in "hurt" written by trent reznor
Figures of speech are linguistic devices or techniques that add meaning, emphasis, or clarity to language. They involve using words or phrases in a non-literal way to create a specific effect, enhance the writing, or make it more engaging and expressive. Examples include similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole.
* blood ran cold * break a leg * bakers dozen *a drop in the bucket *a piece of cake *apple of my eye
The figures of speech in the poem are rhyme, personification, diction, and imagery.
Some examples of figures of speech in "Oedipus the King" include metaphor when Oedipus refers to himself as "the all-unknown invincible Sphinx," simile when Teiresias compares Oedipus to a stone, and personification when the plague is described as a "lord who rides us down to death."