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Flashcards by Maria Rita Pepe, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Maria Rita Pepe
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| A figure of speech is a phrase or word having different meanings than its literal meanings. It conveys meaning by identifying or comparing one thing to another, which has connotation or meaning familiar to the audience. That is why it is helpful in creating vivid rhetorical effect. | Use of figures of speech Figures of speech strengthen the creative expression and description along with making the language more graphic, pointed and vivid. |
| Allegory = abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events | Examples of allegory: "Animal Farm" by Orwell is an allegory of Russia and communism. |
| Alliteration = Repetition of the same initial sound | Examples of alliteration: blue baby bonnets philosophy fan sweet smell of success |
| Anaphora = a technique where several phrases or verses begin with the same word or words | Examples of anaphora: Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition! We laughed, we loved, we sang |
| Antithesis = juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases | Example of antithesis: Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing |
| Apostrophe = breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality or nonexistant character | Example of apostrophe: |
| Assonance = when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds | Example of assonance: |
| Caesura = a pause, usually in the middle of a line, and generally shown by a punctuation mark | Example of caesura To be, or not to be: that is the question |
| Chiasmus = words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order | Example of chiasmus: |
| Hyperbole = exaggeration for emphasis or effect | Example of hyperbole: I could do this forever |
| Imagery = descriptive writing that appeals to the senses | Examples of imagery: It was dark and dim in the forest He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee |
| Irony = using words where the meaning is the opposite of their usual meaning | Example of irony: Naming a Chihuahua Brutus |
| Litotes = a positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite (sometimes with double negatives) | Examples of litotes: She is not unlike her mother New York is not an ordinary city |
| Metaphor = compares two unlike things or ideas | Examples of metaphor: heart of stone The world's a stage Life is a broken-winged bird |
| Metonymy = one word is replaced by another with which it is closely associated | Examples of metonymy: The pen is mightier than the sword Let me give you a hand |
| Onomatopoeia = a word that sounds like what it is describing | Examples of onomatopoeia: Buzz Click Knock |
| Oxymoron = a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction | Examples of oxymoron: clearly confused living death open secret cold fire sweet sorrow |
| Paradox = a statement that appears to be self-contradictory | Example of paradox: Your enemy’s friend is your enemy “I can resist anything but temptation.” "I must be cruel to be kind" |
| Personification = giving human qualities to non-living things or ideas | Examples of personification: The fog crept in The wind howled |
| Pun = humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings | Examples of pun: A horse is a very stable animal An elephant’s opinion carries a lot of weight |
| Simile = comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" | Examples of simile: as blind as a bat as wise as an owl He eats like a pig |
| Synecdoche = when a part represents the whole or the whole is represented by a part | Example of synecdoche: best "brains" in the country |
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