fIGURES OF SPEECH

1. FIGURES OF SPEECH
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3. FIGURES OF SPEECH
It is a departure from the
ordinary form of
expression, or the ordinary
course of ideas in order to
produce a greater effect.

4. FIGURES OF SPEECH
Figures of speech are
often used and crafted
for emphasis, freshness,
expression, or clarity.

5. TYPES OF FIGURE OF SPEECH
 SIMILE
 METAPHOR
 PERSONIFICATION
 METONYMY
 APOSTROPHE
 HYPERBOLE
 SYNECDOCHE
 ALLITERATION
 ONOMATOPOEIA
 OXYMORON
 ANTITHESIS
 LITOTES

6. SIMILE
In this figure of speech, two
unlike thing are directly
compared, and are
introduced by words such
as like, so, as.

7. SIMILE

8. METAPHOR
Similar to simile, but in
metaphor the comparison is
implied because it does not
use words such as like, so,
as.

9. METAPHOR
The camel is a ship of the
desert.

10. METAPHOR
Akash was a lion in the
fight.

11. PERSONIFICATION
In personification, human-like
attributes are used to describe
inanimate objects or abstract
notions. Personification occurs
when the author or speaker
gives human characteristics to
non-human objects.

12. PERSONIFICATION

13. PERSONIFICATION
The trees scream in the
raging wind.

14. METONYMY
Metonymy substitutes a
name for the thing or item
meant.

15. METONYMY

16. METONYMY
The White House declared
that we are at war with
Mars.

17. APOSTROPHE
This figure of speech is a direct
address or call to some
inanimate object or some
abstract idea as if it were
living person or some absent
person as if it were present.

18. APOSTROPHE

19. APOSTROPHE
"Oh! Stars and clouds and winds,
ye are all about to mock me; if ye
really pity me, crush sensation
and memory; let me become as
nought; but if not, depart, depart,
and leave me in darkness."
(Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818)

20. HYPERBOLE
A hyperbole is a figure of
speech that uses
exaggeration to emphasize
comparison in a sentence.

21. HYPERBOLE

22. HYPERBOLE

23. SYNECDOCHE
Synecdoche is a figure of
speech in which a part of
something is used to signify
the whole, or vice-versa.

24. SYNECDOCHE

25. SYNECDOCHE
Give us this day our daily
bread.

26. ALLITERATION
Alliteration is the
repetition of initial
consonant sounds of
neighboring words.

27. ALLITERATION

28. ALLITERATION

29. ONOMATOPOEIA
An onomatopoeia is a
word that imitates the
sound it represents.

30. ONOMATOPOEIA

31. ONOMATOPOEIA

32. ONOMATOPOEIA
“Tinkling sleigh bells
Clanging fire bells
Mellow chiming wedding bells
Tolling, moaning, and groaning funeral bells”
From “The Bells”
~Edgar Allan Poe

33. OXYMORON
It is a figure of speech
which combines two
opposing or
incongruous words in one
phrase/sentence for
emphasis.

34. OXYMORON

35. OXYMORON

36. ANTITHESIS
A striking opposition or
contrast of words or
sentiments is made in the
same sentence. It is
employed to secure
emphasis.

37. ANTITHESIS

38. ANTITHESIS

39. LITOTES
Litotes is a figure of speech
in which a negative
statement is
used to affirm or declare a
positive statement or
sentiment.

40. LITOTES

41. LITOTES

43. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
He clattered and clanged as
he washed the dishes.
(A) Simile
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Hyperbole

44. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
Life is a beach!
(A)Metaphor
(B)Alliteration
(C) Simile

45. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers.”
~Mother Goose
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Hyperbole
(C) Alliteration

46. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
The river falls under us like a
trap door.
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Simile
(C) Metaphor

47. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
I’m so hungry I could eat a
horse!
(A) Hyperbole
(B) Metaphor
(C) Onomatopoeia

48. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE!
“Don’t delay dawn’s disarming display.
Dusk demands daylight.”
From “Dewdrops Dancing Down Daises”
~Paul Mc Cann
(A) Onomatopoeia
(B) Alliteration
(C) Hyperbole

49. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
I’ve heard that joke a billion
times, but it still cracks me
up!
(A) Simile
(B) Metaphor
(C) Hyperbole

50. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
The glass vase is as fragile as
a child’s sandcastle.
(A) Metaphor
(B) Alliteration
(C) Simile

51. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
The buzzing bee startled me!
(A) Hypberbole
(B) Onomatopoeia
(C) Metaphor

52. TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!
She looked at him with fire in
her eyes.
(A) Alliteration
(B) Simile
(C) Metaphor

53. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
The sun draped its arms
around my shoulders
A) Personification
B) Oxymoron
C) Palindrome

54. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
You look like a million
dollars.
A) Personification
B) Idiom
C) Oxymoron

55. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
You looked pretty ugly in
that dress.
A) Onomatopoeia
B) Oxymoron
C) Alliteration

56. TEST YOUR
KNOWLEDGE
The boy shouted, “Madam,
I’m Adam!”
A) Personification
B) Oxymoron
C) Palindrome