FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

SIMILE

METAPHORE

PERSONIFICATION

HYPERBOLE

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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
SYNECDOCHE
METONIMY
ALLUSION
APOSTROPHE

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 SIMILE
A Comparison between one thing, person, place,
and another which is introduced by the words
‘like’, ‘as’, ‘as though’, ‘similar to’, ‘seems’, ‘as if’,
and ‘resemble’.

Example :
Her eyes like angels watch them still
Her brows like blended bows do stand
Threatening with piercing frown to kill
(Thomas Campion)

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STBA-STMIK–AMIK TEKNOKRAT

Example :

Their arms embraced, and their pinions too

Their lips touched not, but had not bade
adieu
As if disjoined by soft-handed slumber
(Ode to Psyche; John Keats)

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 A
METAPHOR
T
KR
A Direct comparison
N
place which is Kintroduced by ‘toA
T
O between one thing, person, and

R
be’ (is, are, was,
T E
were)
K
Example:
O
K
She was a phantomN of delight A
R
T

T E
When first she gleamed upon
N
K
O my sight
EK
To be a moment’s ornament
T
(She was a Phantom of delight; Wordsworth)

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 PERSONIFICATION
Personification is attribution of human feeling and
character to inhuman objects
Example:
When love speaks to you believe in him
Though his voice may shatter your
Dreams as the north wind lay waste the
garden
(Kahlil Gibran; The prophet)

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Example (personification)

I heard the flowers speak;

The white rose told me of your brow
The red rose of your cheek
(a love symphony; Arthur Shaughnessy)

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 T
HYPERBOLE
A
KR
Is the exageration expression used by the poet to
O
enhance the dramatic
K A T
N effect to the readers.
T
Example:
E
K R
N O
What if thy deep and ample stream should be

E K
A mirror of my heart, where she R A
may read
T
T K
The thousand thoughts, i nowObetray to thee
N
K
(StanzasEto the Po, Lord Byron)
T
 SYNECDOCHE

Is the figurative language which employs

substitution whole for part or part for whole

Example:
Cuckoo, cuckoo ! O word of fear
Unpleasing to a married ear
(William Shakespeare)

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 METONIMY

Is a figure of speech in which something is

subtituted with another that is closely related.

Example :
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower
(London 1802, Wordsworth)

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 T
ALLUSION
A
K R
A T
Is the reeference to something or someone well
O
known in history,Nmythology, and literature which
K
E the poem.
add meaning to
T K R
Example:
N O
K A
The brokenEwall, the burningKroof
T
A shudder in the loins engender there
R and tower
T N O
And Agamemnon died
EK
T the Swans; W.B Yeats)
(Leda and

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 APOSTROPHE
Is an address to someone absent or dead and
something inhuman as if they present or alive.

Example:
O powerful western fallen star !
O shades of night....O moody tearful night
(When lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloomed:Walt Whitman)

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