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Topic- figure of speech

o ordinary way of expression

o A word or a phrase used out of its literal meaning.

o An expression used in different way from its usual meaning in order

particular mental picture to create o or effect.
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o Simile-
▪ (She is like her mother)

▪ He is as agile as a monkey

▪ The comparison made between two different things having

one common quality using the word "like" or "as"
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o Every simile is comparison but every Comparison is not a

simile.

o ⇒ different things common quality

o This house is as old as the hills.

o She Sings like a bird.
o They fought like a lion
o They were fighting like cats and dogs.
o An emerald is as green as grass
o A ruby red as blood.
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o The soul was like a star and dwelt apart.

o As proud as a peacock.
o He stood beside her like a rock through thick and thin.
o Her eyes shine like diamond.
o Live a simple life be brave as a lion.
o Live like a hermit and work like a horse.
o It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
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o METAPHOR-
o is called Implied Simile/ Implied Comparison
o A figure of speech that compares different things without
using 'like" or 'as’
o The two things compared from each other. are very different
o A is like B. (Simile)
o A is B (metaphor)
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o Life is a dream.
o All the world is a stage
o Education is your passport to employment
o Friendship is a sheltering tree.
o Books are the mirror of the soul.
o Ministers are the pilers of the state.
o Life is a race and we never realize that we are running towards
nothing.
o A poet once referred to an old man as
A tattered coat upon a stick.
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PERSONIFICATION-
In personification, Inanimate objects or ideas are shown to have a
human quality.

o necessity is the mother of invention.

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o Hald fast to dreams.

for if dreams die (personification)
o Life is a broken-winged bird
that can't fly
Hold fast to dreams
for when dreams go (personification)

o A clock has three hands.

o Opportunity knocks the door.

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▪ Leaves on the ground danced in the wind.

▪ Love is blind.

▪ Experience is a bad teacher.

▪ Experience is the best teacher.

▪ Money is a good servant but a bad master.

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▪ Fear knocked on the door.

Faith answered there was no one there.

▪ Authority forgets a dying king.

▪ death lays icy hands

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o Apostrophe-a direct address to

o A dead person
o Someone who is absent
o A personified object or idea
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▪ O wild west wind ! Thou breath of autumn’s being

▪ Milton! Thou should’t be living at this hour

England hath need of thee, she is a fen

▪ Is this a dagger which I see before me

The handle toward my hand
Come let me clutch thee
I have thee not and yet I see thee still
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o O friend ! Tell me where are you are

o Romeo ! Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

o O death! Come soon.

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o Hyperbole -
o Exaggeration made for the purpose of emphasis
o It is called over statement

▪ I have told you million times not to lie.

▪ Ten thousand saw I at a glance
▪ They stretched in never ending line.
▪ He lives a light year away from here
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▪ He has got tons of money.

▪ A hundred years should go to praise

Thine eyes an on thy forehead gaze.

▪ I am so hungry, I can eat a horse

▪ If the rivers were dry, I will fill it with my tears.

▪ Cry me a river
▪ A scratch when mortally wounded.
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o Paradox-
o A statement that contradict itself but really contains possible
truth.

o Every contradiction is not paradox.

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o Cowards die many times before their death.

o It was the best of times. It was the worst of time.

o It was the age of wisdom. It was the age of foolishness.

o We had everything before us, we had nothing before us.

o War is peace
o Freedom is slavery
o Ignorance is strength.
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o Fair is foul and foul is fair.

o Destroyer and preserver, hear o hear!

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o Oxymoron-
o A phrase that combines two words that seem to be the
opposite of each other.

o Putting together the most contradictory term.

o It is also called short paradox/ compressed paradox.

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o Open secret
o True lies
o Regularly irregular
o Act naturally
o Deafening silence
o Sweet poison
o His failure was the result of his careful carelessness.
o Kind cruelty of the surgeon’s knife.
o When then, O Brawling love.
O loving hate.
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Alliteration-
o The repetition of the same consonant sound at
the beginning of successive words.

o Five fools found fifty four flowers.

o My love is like a red red rose.

o Laughing lions laugh like jumping jaguars.

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o One wealthy wise merchant

o Thy, lingering lights lines to live.

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Assonance-
o The repetition of similar vowel sounds in two
or more words.

o Assonance occurs in the middle of the word

but alliteration occurs at the beginning .
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o I feel the need for speed.

o They fight for their right in the night.

o Dear, come near and fear not.

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Irony-
it is a statement whose real meaning is
exactly the opposite of the meaning conveyed by
words.

❖ For Brutus is an honorable man.

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✓ I will not marry yet. And when

I do I swear it shall be Romeo
Whom you know I hate.

✓ Had we but world enough and time, this

Coyness lady. Were no crime.
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Onomatopoeia-

the use of words that imitate a sound.

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▪ Buzzing of bees

▪ Crackling of ducks

▪ Hissing of snakes

▪ Roaring of lions

▪ Jingling of bells
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Pun-

play on words

A clever or humorous use of a word that has more than one

meaning.
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❖ Is life worth living ?

It depends on the liver.

❖ A bicycle can’t stand alone

Because it is two tyred.
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Epigram-

It is a short witty statement

1. The child is the father of man.

2. Language is the art of concealing thoughts.

3. Cowards die many times before their death.

4. Boys will be boys.

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5. Speech is silver but silence is gold.

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Euphemism-
to use inoffensive or indirect expression in
place of offensive or harsh one.

assed away: Instead of "died".

Resting in peace: Instead of "dead".
Going to a better place: Instead of "dying".
No longer with us: Instead of "dead".
Lost their battle with illness: Instead of "died from illness".
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Innuendo-
An oblique hint

Based on indirectness

An indirect (and usually malicious) implication

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➢ He was born of rich but honest parents

➢ I do not want to go to the doctor

I want to die a natural death.

➢ My friends were poor but honest

➢ I saw you coming out of a light blue car tomorrow.