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Figures of SpeechEnglish 11: Periods 4,5,7,9
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Figure of Speech
An expressive use of language in which words are used in other than their literal sense for special effect or emphasis
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Simile
Her eyes twinkled like stars.He was as tough as a bull.
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Metaphor
The road was a ribbon of moonlight.
We would have had more pizza to eat if Tammy hadn’t been such a hog.
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Irony
Verbal, situational, and dramatic irony
Saying “I’m NOT upset!” while clearly being upset
Smokers in front of a “No Smoking” sign
Making fun of someone for stepping in a puddle and then stepping in one yourself
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Paradox
Julius Caesar: Cowards die many times before their deaths. (Act II, scene ii : line 32)
Animal Farm: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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Hyperbole
You could have knocked me over with a feather.
James Ramsey Ullman’s “A Boy and a Man”: “It was not a mere man he was holding, but a giant; or a block of granite.”
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Onomatopoeia
Robert Browning’s “Meeting at Night”:
A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch
And blue spurt of a lighted match.
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Alliteration
Robert Frost’s “Acquainted With the Night”:I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet…
Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven”:Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
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Assonance
Free and easyMake the grade
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Consonance
I dropped the locket in the thick mud.
Gerard Manly Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur”: And all is seared with trade; bleared smeared with toil;
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Apostrophe
“You stupid chair!” John Donne’s “The Rising Sun”:
Busy old fool, unruly Sun,Why dost thou thus,Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
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Euphemism
Passing away instead of dyingLaid off instead of fired
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Oxymoron
Clearly confusedControlled chaosDeliberate mistake“Always be sincere, even when
you don’t mean it.” –Irene Peter
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Personification
John Steinbeck’s “Flight”:“A scar of green grass cut across the flat. And behind the flat another mountain rose, desolate with dead rocks and starving little black bushes . . .”
James Stephens’s “The Wind”:“The wind stood up and gave a shout. He whistled on his two fingers . . . ”
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Understatement
Saying “We’ve had a bit of wind today” after a hurricane
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “Tis but a scratch!” when his limbs are cut off
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Allegory
In George Orwell’s Animal Farm, animals represent Communist Russia
In The Chronicles of Narnia, Aslan represents a Christ figure
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Rhyme
Coleridge’s “The Ancient Mariner”:“In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud”
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Slant Rhyme
Notion/nationBear/boreEar/are
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Blank Verse
Shakespeare’s Macbeth:. . . Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
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Allusion
Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities.
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Imagery
William Wordsworth’s “Daffodils”:I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the Milky Way,They stretch'd in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
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Symbolism
Colors, seasons, nature, weather, animals, clothing, objects, etc.