FIGURES OF SPEECH

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SIMIL E

A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or

"as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things
that have certain qualities in common.
SIMILE

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METAPHOR

An implied comparison between two unlike things

that actually have something important in common.
M E TA P H O R
 PUN

A play on words, sometimes on different senses of

the same word and sometimes on the similar sense
or sound of different words.
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PERSONIFICATION

A F I G U R E O F S P E E C H I N W H I C H A N I N A N I M AT E
O B J E C T O R AB S T R AC T IO N I S E N D OW E D W I T H
HUMAN QUALITIES OR ABILITIES.
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 METONYM

A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted JigyasaM

for another with which it's closely associated; also, the
rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by
referring to things around it.
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 EUPHEMISM

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The substitution of an inoffensive term for
one considered offensively explicit.
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 U N D E R S TAT E M E N T

A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker

deliberately makes a situation seem less important
or serious than it is.
 HYPERBOLE

An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated

terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened
effect.
 O N O M AT O P O E I A

T H E U S E O F W O R D S T H AT I M I TAT E T H E S O U N D S
A S S O C I AT E D W I T H T H E O B J E C T S O R A C T I O N S
T H E Y R E F E R TO.
 OXYMORON

A figure of speech in which incongruous or

contradictory terms appear side by side .
 A L L I T E R AT I O N

The repetition of an initial consonant sound.

 APOSTROPHE

Breaking off discourse to address some absent

p e r s o n o r t h i n g , s o m e a b s t r a c t q u a l i t y, a n i n a n i m a t e
o b j e c t , o r a n o n e x i s t e n t c h a r a c t e r.
ROLL ON, THOU DARK AND DEEP OCEAN.
ROLL!” IS AN EXAMPLE OF?

• Apostrophe
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole
• Metaphor
MY UNCLE PASSED AWAY IN 1970.'

• exclamation
• tautology
• apostrophe
• euphemism
. I had so much homework last night that i needed a pickup truck to
carr y all my books home!

• Oxymoron
• onomatopoeia
• pun
• hyperbole
The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet at the blasphemy
in my old jangly walk (billy corgan, "thirty-three")

• euphemism
• simile
• antithesis
• personification
 CODE
JIYGASAM
THANK
YOU
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