Figures of speech:-
The words and phrases managing the meaning of a context more vivid, clear, direct and persuasive.
manner of expressions that intentionally deviate from the ordinary mode of speech for the sake of more powerful, pleasing and distinctive effect.
Figures of speech adorn the language. They add colors and interest and awake our imagination and cause a moment of excitement. They are like sprinkling salt and other complements on dull food to make it delicious.
The following are the most important figures of speech.
Alliteration:-
It is a Latin word which means ' repeating and playing upon the same letter'.
Figure of speech in which consonants at the beginning of words are repeated.
Alliteration is a repetition of letters or stressed syllables. It is used occasionally in prose but in old English poetry alliteration was an essential part of metrical scheme.
Examples,
Don't drink and drive.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of packed peppers.
Assonance:-
Figure of speech in which words that have same or very similar vowel sounds are repeated is called assonance.
Examples,
The fat cat has a snack.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
(Robert Frost).
Apostrophe:-
Apostrophe is a Greek word, which means ' turning away '.
The figure of speech in which a thing, a place, an abstract quality, or an idea, a dead person is addressed as if it is present capable of understanding.
It indicate the process of talking to nonliving things as they are capable of understanding.
Don't confuse it with the punctuation mark ' apostrophe '.
Examples,
You aren't fair to me, life!
What a bullshit computer you are!
Twinkle twinkle Little stars,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
Simile:-
The figure of speech which is used to compared two different things. We compare them by using the words ' like ' and ' as '.
They may be two different things but similar in a significant way.
Examples,
He ran like a wind.
She is beautiful like an angel.
She is as charming as moon.
Her eyes were as black as coal.
The progress of our country is like swimming in opposite direction in a river.
Metaphor:-
figure of speech with compare two dissimilar thanks without the use of ' as ' and ' like '.
They are compared with each other directly.
Examples,
She is an angel.
Her eyes are coal.
He is a lion in battle.
She is a fox.
Personification:-
It is a type of metaphor. the figure of speech which attributes human qualities to inanimate objects. It is the practice of representing an inanimate object or an abstract idea as a person assuming it with human traits.
It is not to be confused with pathetic fallacy,
Which is to give human emotions to nonliving things. And anthropomorphism, which is giving human qualities to non-human entities, in particular to animals and other creatures.
Examples,
The daffodils were dancing beside the lake.
The tree jumped into the road in front of my car.
The pencil flew away from my hands.
Pun:-
Figure of speech in the phrase or words are used in a humorous way so that more than one meaning is suggested.
The pun can use multiple meanings of the same word ( homonyms ) or different meanings of similar sounding words ( homophones ).
Example,
I am a mender of soles.
( From Julius Caesars ).
Here the sole can be used for soul. The person used a pun saying that he is a mender of the soul, although he is a sole maker.
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