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Figures of Speech

The document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech including simile, onomatopoeia, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, assonance, alliteration, personification, imagery, oxymoron, paradox, irony, apostrophe. It also includes a poem demonstrating some of these figures of speech such as metaphor, apostrophe, and imagery.

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Figures of Speech

The document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech including simile, onomatopoeia, metaphor, idiom, hyperbole, assonance, alliteration, personification, imagery, oxymoron, paradox, irony, apostrophe. It also includes a poem demonstrating some of these figures of speech such as metaphor, apostrophe, and imagery.

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Figures of Speech

Simile
 Compares one thing to
another using “like” or “as”

Examples:
The milk tasted like pickles.
It was as dry as a bone.
Life is like a box of
chocolates.
Onomatopoeia
 Using words that sound like their meaning

Examples:
buzz splat crash whoosh

moo pow chug whew


beep bam bang chirp
Buzz went the bees.
WHAM
Moo said the cow.
!
Metaphor
 A comparison between two things
which does not use like or as.
 May sound false at first, but is a clever
way to make a point.

Examples:
My love is a rose.
You are my sunshine.
America is a melting pot.
Idiom
 A language familiar to a group of
people.
 The dialect of people or a region.

Examples:
That was easy as pie.
Boy, my brain was cookin’.
Ya’ll comin’ to da party tonight?
Hyperbole
 A large exaggeration, usually
used with humor.

Examples:
 Her feet were so big she could
go water skiing without the
skies.
 I cried rivers of tears.
Assonance
 A repetition of vowel sounds
within syllables with
changing consonants.

Examples:
Tilting at windmills.
The rain in Spain falls mainly
in the plains.
Alliteration
 Starting three or more words
with the same sound.

Examples:
A skunk sat on a stump.
Wendy worries about her weird
wart.
She sells seashells by the
seashore.
Personification
 Assigning the qualities of a person
to something that isn’t human.

Examples:
The leaves danced in the wind.
Opportunity knocked on the door.
At precisely 6:30 a.m. my alarm clock
sprang to life.
Imagery
 The reader can picture the scene in his
mind.
 Usually appeals to the 5 senses.

Examples:
 A host of golden daffodils.
 Beside the noisy lake.
Oxymoron
 A figure of speech in which incongruous
or contradictory terms appear side by
side;
Examples:
 "O brawling love! O loving hate! . . .
(William Shakespeare)
 “Cold fire”
 “Bittersweet romance”
Paradox
 is a typically a true statement or a group
of statements, which seems to lead to
some contradiction.

Examples:
  "War is peace."
"Freedom is slavery."
"Ignorance is strength."
(George Orwell, 1984)
Irony
 is similar to sarcasm, which is saying the opposite
meaning of something for effect. 

Examples:
 “She is so beautiful that nobody asks her out.”
 Brilliant, I’ve been fired!
Apostrophe
 A figure of speech in which some absent or
nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present
and capable of understanding.

Examples:
 "O western wind, when wilt thou blow
That the small rain down can rain?"
(anonymous, 16th c.)

 "Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief."


(Christopher Marlowe)
Let’s try! 
 is similar to sarcasm, which is saying the
opposite meaning of something for effect. 
 It is a comparison between two things which
does not use “like” or “as”.
 A figure of speech in which some absent or
nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if
present and capable of understanding.
 Usually appeals to the 5 senses
 A large exaggeration, usually used with
humor.
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Love’s Inconsistency

I find no peace, yet all my war is done;


I fear and hope, I burn and freeze likewise;
I fly aloft, yet I cannot rise;
And nought I have, yet all the world I seize on,

That loosens, nor locks, holds me in prison,


And holds me not, yet can I escape no wise:
Nor lets me live, nor die, at my devise,
And yet of death it gives me no occasion.

Without eyes I see; without tongue I plain;


I wish to perish, yet I ask for health;
I love another, and yet I hate myself;
I feed in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain.
Lo, thus displeases me both death and life,
And my delight is causer of this strife.
-Franceso Petrarch
Quote, quote, quote ! 

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical


than history; for poetry expresses the
universal, and history only the
particular.”

- Aristotle

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