HUM1 FIGURES OF SPEECH

FIGURES OF SPEECH

• uses figures of speech in both literature and poetry to enhance their writing

• beyond the word’s usual, literal meaning

• vivid language

• new or unusual / extra ordinary

• poetic device

SIMILE

• comparing two unlike things but have something in common

• using “like” and “as”

• example: We bear the bride along like a pearl on a string

METAPHOR

• similar to simile

• followed by an objective

• a comparison in which one thing is said to be another

• comparing unlike things without using the words “like” and “as”

• example: His heart is a cold iron

HYPERBOLE

• exaggerated

• a major exaggeration or overstatement

• example: The drumming of raindrops on the roof

PERSONIFICATION

• personify

• giving human traits to a non-living

• example: Malacañang suspended classes yesterday

METONYMY

• figurative statement

• using a related term to represent something

• creates vivid imagery and adds depth to language

• noun to noun

• example: The kitchen is busy during dinner time

SYNECDOCHE

• replaced by the part

• used to separate

• a part of something is used to represent the whole, or vice versa, or where the whole is used to represent a part

• example: That’s a nice set of wheels you have.

APOSTROPHE

• addressing someone who is absent or dead

• example: Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.

LITERATURE ALLUSION

• a statement directly borrowing from horizontal events

• “kamukha mo si paraluman”

• example: Chocolate cake is my achilles heel

ALLITERATION

• repetition of similar beginning

• constant sound

• example: Seven sisters slept soundly on the sand.

ANTITHESIS

• contradicting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance

• example: When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die

OXYMORON

• put together in one statement two contradicting terms

• “alone together” “living dead” “big baby” “original copy” “passive aggressive”

REPETITION

• anaphora / epistrophe

• repetition

• repeating of certain words

• “over and over” “from time to time” “day after day” “back to back”

ANAPHORA

Repetition at the beginning

EPISTROPHE

Repetition at the end