This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech. It discusses figures of speech categorized into phonological (related to sound), morphological (related to words), syntactical (related to arrangement), semantic (related to meaning) and pragmatic (related to speakers/hearers). Examples are provided for common figures including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, rhetorical question and irony. The document serves to comprehensively explain different types of figurative language.
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is figurative language in the form of a single word or phrase. It can be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words.
In truth, there are a wealth of these literary tools in the English language. But, let's start out by exploring some of the most common figure of speech examples.
For example,
Synecdoche:
Synecdoche occurs when a part is represented by the whole or, conversely, the whole is represented by the part.
Examples include:
Wheels - a car
The police - one policeman
Plastic - credit cards
Figurative language is often associated with literature and with poetry in particular. Whether we're conscious of it or not, we use figures of speech every day in our own writing and conversations.
Figures of speech are also known as figures of rhetoric, figures of style, rhetorical figures, figurative language, and schemes.
A figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it such as a metaphor, simile, or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity.
Through the use of figures of speech, the author makes significant the insignificant, makes seem less important the overemphasized, brings colour and light, insight, understanding and clarity.
Figures of speech allow us to assess, interpret and critically analyze not only the writer's attempt, but also his or her purpose.
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is figurative language in the form of a single word or phrase. It can be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words.
In truth, there are a wealth of these literary tools in the English language. But, let's start out by exploring some of the most common figure of speech examples.
For example,
Synecdoche:
Synecdoche occurs when a part is represented by the whole or, conversely, the whole is represented by the part.
Examples include:
Wheels - a car
The police - one policeman
Plastic - credit cards
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Figures of speech are also known as figures of rhetoric, figures of style, rhetorical figures, figurative language, and schemes.
A figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it such as a metaphor, simile, or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity.
Through the use of figures of speech, the author makes significant the insignificant, makes seem less important the overemphasized, brings colour and light, insight, understanding and clarity.
Figures of speech allow us to assess, interpret and critically analyze not only the writer's attempt, but also his or her purpose.
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2. A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that
achieves a special effect by using words in
distinctive ways. Figurative language is often
associated with literature and poetry. But the
fact is we use figures of speech every day in
our own writing and conversations.
Using original figures of speech in our writing
is a way to convey meanings in fresh,
unexpected ways. Figures can help our
readers understand and stay interested in
what we have to say.
5. Alliteration- The repetition of the same consonant
sounds or of different vowel sounds at the beginning of
words or in stressed syllables.
o consonantal alliteration – “on scrolls of silver snowy
sentences" (Hart Crane)
o vocalic alliteration – Anna has amazing abilities
appreciated by everyone.
Assonance – the use of the same vowel sound with
different consonants or the same consonant with
different vowels in successive words or stressed syllables
o Vowels - I saw old autumn in the musty morn (T. Hood)
o Consonants – mystery and mastery
6. Consonance – Similarity between consonants, but
not between vowels
Has your soul sipped
Of the sweetness of all sweets?
Has it well supped
But yet hungers and sweats?
(W. Owen)
Onomatopoeia – A word whose sound hints at its
meaning, such as bang, hiss.
8. Anaphora – The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at
the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or
paragraphs - We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on
the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the
streets, we shall fight in the hills. (Winston S. Churchill)
Epiphora – Repetition of a word or expression at the end of
successive phrases, sentences, or verses - Little Lamb, who
made thee?/ Dost thou know who made thee? (Blake, "The
Lamb")
Anadiplosis - Rhetorical repetition at the beginning of a phrase
of the word or words with which the previous phrase ended -
She walks with Beauty - Beauty that must die (Keats)
Polyptoton – The repetition of a word in a differently inflected
form - There's nothing you can do that can't be done,/ Nothing
you can sing that can't be sung. (The Beatles)
9. Archaism – An old word or phrase no longer in general
spoken or written use. Archaisms are found in poetry,
biblical translations, place names and so on. yon=that,
hither=closer, oft=often, damsel=maiden
Verb endings such as –est and –eth as in thou goest=
you go and goeth=goes (third person singular present
indicative).
Epanalepsis – the repetition, after a more or less
lengthy passage of subordinate or parenthetic text, of a
word or clause that was used before – Live and let live
11. Ellipsis – Refers to a sentence in which a part of structure
has been omitted, which can be understood by context.
May the Lord cut off all flattering lips and (may the Lord
cut off) every boastful tongue. (Psalm 12:3)
Parallelism – The principle of representing equal ideas in
the same grammatical form. Repetition of syntactical
units (phrases, clauses, sentences).
Easy come, easy go. Out of sight, out of mind.
Parallelism produces a sense of balance and order.
Government of the people, by the people and for the
people.
12. Syndeton – refers to the use of conjunctions to link parts of a
syntactic constructions as in – They spoke quietly and rapidly.
o Asyndeton – Unsual omission of conjunctions, especially in
order to achieve drammatic form of expression as in – O, what
a noble mind is here overthrown/ The courtier’s, soldier’s,
scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword (Hamlet)
o Polysyndeton – Use of (unnecessarily) many conjunctions.
When you are old and grey and full of sleep. (Yeats)
Chiasmus - The inversion of words from the first half of a
statement in the second half – Ask not what your country can
do for you, ask what you can do for your country.(J.Kennedy)
14. Semantic figures
Simile – Comparison between two dissimilar things, usually
connected by like and as - She walks in beauty like the night
(L.Byron)
Metaphor – A figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally
belonging to one object or idea is applied to another - The leaves of
Life keep falling one by one. (Omar Khayyam)
Metaphors are characterized as either
1. Direct – She is the pain in his heart. The primary subject (tenor) is
« She » and the secondary subject (vehicle) is « pain in his heart »
2. Indirect – Comparison is implied but not stated directly as in - It was
just the luck of the draw that we met yesterday. We are comparing
an element of life to a card game, but the comparison is not stated
directly
Personification - A type of metaphor in which distinctive human
characteristics are attributed to an animal, object or idea, as His car
was happy to be washed or Fortune is blind Personification is
commonly used in allegory.
15. Metonymy – A term used in semantics and stylistics,
referring to a figure of speech in which the name of an
attribute of an entity is used in place of the entity itself - To
read Milton= Milton’s works or What action has Whitehall (=
the British Government) taken?
Synecdoche - A figure of speech in which a part is used to
represent the whole (for example, ABC for alphabet) or the
whole for a part ("England won the World Cup in 1966").
Antonomasia – 1. Use of a proper name in place of an
ordinary word – a Croesus = any very rich person, Benedict
Arnold=a traitor . 2. Use of a descriptive phrase in place of a
proper name - The Swan of Avon = Shakespeare
16. Hyperbola – A figure of speech in which exaggeration
is used for emphasis or effect – This book weighs a ton.
o A type of hyperbole in which the exaggeration
magnified so greatly that it refers to an impossibility is
called an adynaton – I'd give my right arm for a piece
of pizza.
Euphemism - The act of substituting a mild or indirect
term for harsh or offensive one. neutralize for kill ,
departed for dead
Antithesis – Parallel arrangement of contrasting ideas,
phrases, or words so as to produce an effect of
balance, such as My words fly up, my thoughts remain
below (Hamlet)
18. Apostrophe – The addressing an absent person or a
personified object.
Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting.
Rhetorical question – A question asked for rhetorical
effect rather than as a request for an answer –
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? (C.Marlowe)
Irony – The use of words to express something
different from and often opposite to their literal
meaning – He is an honorable man as Brutus.
19. References
Manfred Jahn, A Guide to the Theory of Poetry (IV paragraph-
Minima Rhetorica)
David Crystal, A dictonary of Linguistics and Phonetics (V edition)
Edward Quinn, A dictionary of Literary and Thematic terms (II
edition)
Robert I Bradshaw, Figures of Speech
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