The document discusses various figures of speech and types of figurative language including simile, metaphor, oxymoron, idioms, irony, personification, and hyperbole. It provides examples and definitions of each term, such as an oxymoron combining contradictory terms, verbal irony saying something but meaning its opposite, personification speaking of non-human things in human terms, and hyperbole exaggerating to make a point.

1. Figures of
speech/Figura
tive language

2. Simile

3. Metaphor

4. Oxymoron
• absent presence (Sidney 1591)
• Examples: awful good
• beggarly riches (Donne 1624)
• bittersweet
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. falsely true )

5. Idioms

6. Irony
Verbal or linguistic irony
When you say something and
mean something else, often its
opposite. Can be used to
encourage or discourage. ( He
is as brave as a lion said
sarcastically for example)
The irony of situation: The
thieves chose the police station
to rob.
We, the audience, know that
Iago is a villain in the play
Othello by Shakespeare but
Othello does not.
Dramatic irony

7. Personification
W HEN THINGS ARE SPOKEN OF IN HUMAN TERMS

8. Hyperbole
WHEN YOU
EXAGGERATE TO MAKE
A POINT
(THE OPPOSITE OF
HYPERBOLE IS
UNDERSTATEMENT
AS A LITERARY
TECHNIQUE

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