20 TYPES OF FIGURE OF SPEECH

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When there is a *comparison*

made between *two different things* which share something in common.

E. G “The world is your oyster”

Metaphor

is a *play on words*, it uses a word

to give a different sense to the sentence and add a double meaning.

E.g. An egg for breakfast is not easy to beat.

Pun

is a statement which

*contradicts itself*.

E.g. Deep down Anna is really shallow.

Paradox

a word which resembles the sound it is describing.

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E.g.My watch ticks loudly.

Onomatopoeia

is a statement which is made to be less important than what

is actually being conveyed.

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E.g. I only have two million dollars.

Understatement

is a phrase which compares

something to something else using the words like or as.

E.g. Her hair was as golden as the sun.

Simile

is a statement in which

only part of something is expressed to relate to the whole.

E. G He had just got some new wheels

Synecdoche

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is when a phrase is replaced

with another which has a similar meaning, used to describe something in an indirect manner.

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E.g. I remain loyal to the crown.

Metonymy

is when an object which is not alive is given human qualities.

E.g. My car is a real beauty.

Personification

is when two words in phrase *contradict one another*.

E.g.The girl next door is pretty ugly.

Oxymoron

is an understatement which

applies a negative to express the

meaning of the affirmative.

E.g. That dress is not too bad

Litotes

is a term which uses an exaggeration to add a more dramatic meaning to the sentence.

E.g. My bag weighs a tonne.

Hyperbole

is when two sentences are

balanced against one another but with the words reversed.

E.g. Work to live and do not live to work.

Chiasmus

is a statement which conveys the

exact opposite meaning of what is literally being said.

E.g.

The fire station burnt to the ground

Irony

is the replacement of a phrase

which might be deemed offensive by one which implies the same meaning but does

not carry offence with it.

E.g. Instead of 'he died' you would say 'he passed away.'

Euphemism

is the *similarity in sound between vowels* in the middle of neighbouring words.

E.g. How now, brown cow.

Assonance

is speaking to an object or item that is not alive as if it were in fact, alive.

E.g. Come on trousers, you have to fit me.

Apostrophe

is applying a juxtaposition of ideas which are contrasting in a statement that is balanced.

E. G Man proposes and God deposes

Antithesis

is when there is a repetition of sound within a phrase or sentence.

E.g. She sells seashells on the seashore.

Alliteration

is when a word is repeated multiple times within a phrase.

E.g. He had one apple, one banana and one pear.

Anaphora

are figures of speech that move the meaning of the text from literal to figurative.

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example :

“Chicago's worker bees buzz around the streets. “ or

“The tide swallowed the people”

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