Written early 19 and 20

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 Prefer The Legacy

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Participation: 10%
 Group : 10%
Midterm : 20%
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Content: dap ung duoc theme
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Technique
No need to submit screenplay, no need for subtitle (if yes, make sure
correct spelling)
Only use the theme but write a completely different screenplay
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Figurative language includes words and impressions that are not taken in the literal sense.

It enables readers to get at the mood of the writer or to have profound understanding of what is meant.

With just a few words, the writer can communicate volumes about feelings and expressions.

SOME COMMON TYPES OF FIGURES OF SPEECH

1. SIMILE /ˈsɪməli/ : a comparison that reveals similarities between otherwise dissimilar things

My love is like a red, red rose.

Love is like understanding that grows bright, gazing on many truths.

My love or Clinton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter
changes the trees. My love for Healthcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath, a source of little
visible delight, but necessary. I’m Healthcliff - he’s always always in my mind. (Wuthering
Heights)
2. METAPHOR: the application of a descriptive term or phrase to an object or action to which it is
imaginatively but not literally applicable. Here the comparison is not explicitly stated by LIKE or
AS. It is implied. Metaphor may be grouped according to their parts of speech.

- Noun: She was breathing fire.

The lash of his words

A flash of hope

Bloom of youth

- Adjective: stony heart, burning eye, naked truth

- Verb: His eyes flashed angrily

He threw himself in the mercy of court

Extended metaphor: expressed through a series of images all bearing a central point of
resemblance

All the world is a stage. And all the men and women are merely players. They have their
exits and entrances. And one man in his times plays many parts.

Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour on the stage

And then is heard no more, it is a tale told by an idiot

Full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.

Dead metaphor: some words and phrases were originally metaphors or similes, but as they are
often used, the metaphorical characteristic is lost.

The foot of the hill

The face of a clock

The mouth of a river

3. PERSONIFICATION: a figure of speech which gives the qualities of a person to an animal, an

object, or an idea. The writer uses it to show something in an entirely new light, to communicate
a certain feeling or attitude toward it, and to control the way a reader perceives it.

The house was alive with soft, quick steps and running voices.

Little faint winds were playing chase.

 4. OVERSTATEMENT: an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally but made for a
special effect

I’m dead tired.

I’m bored to death.

The eyes are brighter than the very sun.

5. UNDERSTATEMENT: the expression of an affirmative by the negative of its contrary

She is not a bad-looking girl.

I shan’t be sorry (I shall be very glad.)

6. PUN (chơi chữ): the humourous use of a word or combination of words that are alike or nearly
alike in sound so as to emphasize the different meanings.

Is life worth living? Yes, it depends on the liver.

She told the child to try not to be so trying.

7. PARADOX: an apparently self-contradictory statement that may in reality express a possible

truth. It is also intended to cause surprise or arrest attention.

Still water runs deep.

The child is the father of the man.

We can predict his pesonality when he grows up because what he has learnt from the child will go with
him to the adults.

I can resist anything except temptation.

More haste, less speed.

Haste makes waste.

The amount of women who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous.

8. ANTITHESIS (suẹ đtawj cạnh nhau của các ý tưởng tương phản): a striking contrast of ideas
marked by the choice and arrangement of words in the same sentence to secure emphasis

2 đối tượng, mệnh đề khác nhau đặt cạnh nhau

Give me liberty or give me death.

Speech is silvery but silence is gold.

To err is human, to forgive is Divine.

 Art lies in concealing art.

He can bribe (hối lộ), but he can’t seduce(dụ dỗ); he can buy but he can’t gain; he can lie
but he can’t deceive.(lừa dối)

9. OXYMORON (nghịcH lý): a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in
conjunction for a startling effect (thường là cụm danh từ)

Loving hate

Heavy lightness

Cold fire

Sick health

The kind cruelty of a surgeon’s knife

Cold passion

10. EUPHEMISM (uyển ngữ, nói tránh): the use of pleasant, mild or indirect phrases in place of
more accurate or direct ones

Pass away = die

Pass water = urinate

Powder room = toilet

11. CLIMAX: the arrangement of ideas in the order of more or less importance

In action how like angle, in apprehension how like a God

To gossip is a fault, to libel (phỉ báng) a crime, to slander (vu khống) a sin.

12. SYNECHDOCHE /sɪˈnekdəki/ (phép chuyển nghĩa, cải du): the use of a part to stand for a
whole, the whole for a part, an individual name for a whole class, the material for the thing made
of

He has many mouths to feed.

She was a girl of twenty summers.

He is a Newton of this age. (great inventor)

There is a mixture of the tiger and the ape in the character of a Frenchman.

13. METONYMY (one kind of synechdoche): the use of the name of one object for that of another
with which it is closely associated or of which it is a part. It is also the use of the sign for the
thing signified, the instrument for the agent, the container for what is contained
 (những đối tượng của metonymy thì thường universal, đại chúng ai cũng biết)

The White House = the American president

The bench = the judges

The crown = the king

The pen is mightier than the sword

From the cradle to the grave

Keep a good table

14. TRANSFERRED EPITHET: a qualifying adjective is changed from the noun it is intended to
qualify to another word which is somewhat in connection with that noun

He passed a sleepless night.

The plough man plods his weary way homeward.

SOUND DEVICES: techniques for bringing out the sound of words

a. Onomatopoeia: the use of words that mimic sounds, like “buzz” or “hiss” to create liveliness or
attractiveness

Pom. Ta-ta-ta tee-ta. The piano burst out so passionately..

b. Alliteration : the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of closely linked words or
syllables. It helps break up the tedium of prose and zest to poetry

There was a haze on the horizon.

Look before you leap.

It was hot and humid.

c. Consonance: the repetition of the same consonants in a string of words. The repeated sounds can
occur anywhere within the word, although often at the end

All mammals named Sam are clammy.

d. Assonance: the repetition of vowels

Break, break, break

On thy cold, stones sea.