This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech used to create vivid images and convey meaning effectively. It discusses metaphor, simile, hyperbole, alliteration, assonance, irony, onomatopoeia, personification, pun, anticlimax, and sarcasm - comparing concepts without or with "like" and "as", exaggerating to emphasize a point, repeating consonant or vowel sounds, implying the opposite, imitating sounds, giving human traits to non-human things, playing on words with similar sounds and different meanings, building up but concluding flatly and unexpectedly, and being hurtfully ironic. It also gives examples to illustrate each figure of speech.
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Figures of speech presentation
1. We use figures of speech to create images in
the readers mind that express what we are
trying to say.
E.G: “he is as strong as a rock”
2. DEFINITIONS:
METAPHOR: A Metaphor is a comparison without the use of “as”
or “like”.
SIMILE: A simile is a direct comparison that always contains the
Words “as” or “like”.
HYPERBOLE: is an over-exaggeration, not meant to be taken
literally. It is to emphasise a point.
ALLITERATION: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant
sound at the beginning of words.
ASSONANCE: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. Either
At the beginning or middle of a word.
3. IRONY: Irony implies the opposite of what is being said.
Opposite of what is being said is meant to be understood.
ONOMATOPOEIA: Onomatopoeia uses words that
Imitate and reproduce real life sounds.
PERSONIFICATION: gives human qualities to inanimate
Objects and abstract ideas.
PUN: is a clever play on words that are alike in sound but
different in meaning.
ANTI-CLIMAX: is a build up of ideas but the final
Statement is often flat and unexpected.
SARCASM: sarcasm is very similar to Irony in that the
opposite of what is being said is intended, however with the
purpose of being hurtful.