Figures of

Speech 2
January 4, 2022
Recap:

● Simile
● Metaphor
● Personification
● Apostrophe
● Irony
 Hyperbole
It is when you use words to exaggerate what you mean or
emphasize a point. It is used to make something seem bigger or
more important than it actually is.
Examples of
Hyperbole
There is more danger in juliet’s
If Juliet’s eyes were stars looking eyes than in twenty of her
down on us realtivescoming at him with
It would be bright their swords.
Birds would be singing
Because they thought it’s daytime

Love gave him the wings to Two days we’re apart feels
climb the walls and reach Juliet. twenty years til then
 Understatement

When you try to say or show something of no importance or less

importance.
Examples of
Understatement

“I have to have this I thought they’d kill you. Anybody got hurt?
operation. It isn’t very I kind of lost my temper. No one. I just killed a
serious. I have this big nigger.
tumor in my brain. -Emperor Mage
-Adventures of
-Salinger’s Catcher in the Huckleberry Finn
Rye
 Oxymoron
An Oxymoron is when two words are used together in a
sentence but they seem to be in contrast with each other. An
oxymoron is a figure of speech that willingly uses two differing
ideas. This contradiction creates a paradoxical image in the
reader or listener's mind that creates a new concept or
meaning for the whole.
Examples of Oxymoron:

● Life is bittersweet.
● They felt the joyful sadness of his arrival.
● Sweet sorrow
● Old news
● Open secret
● Deafening Silence
 Synecdoche
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or
vice versa.
 ● Lend me your ears.
● You have my heart.
● Threads (signifies clothing)
● Men in suits
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