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Figures of Speech

A figure of speech is an intentional deviation from literal language that enhances written or spoken communication. Common figures of speech include similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, litotes, oxymorons, synecdoches, anaphoras, apostrophes, and paradoxes. Each uses creative language in a different way such as comparing two unlike things, contradicting terms, or addressing absent people or things.

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Figures of Speech

A figure of speech is an intentional deviation from literal language that enhances written or spoken communication. Common figures of speech include similes, metaphors, hyperboles, personification, litotes, oxymorons, synecdoches, anaphoras, apostrophes, and paradoxes. Each uses creative language in a different way such as comparing two unlike things, contradicting terms, or addressing absent people or things.

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figure of speech, any intentional deviation from literal statement or common usage that emphasizes, clarifies, or embellishes both

written and spoken language. FIGURE OF SPEECH : A mode of expression in which words are used out of their literal meaning or out of their ordinary use in order to add beauty or emotional intensity or to transfer the poet's sense impressions by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning familiar to the reader. Simile The most commonly used figure of speech, it directly compares one object to another, using words 'as', 'as though', 'as if', 'as '.. as' and 'like' E.g. Eyes as blue as the sky and deep like the ocean Metaphor It is similar to simile but uses indirect comparison. It compares two things by saying one thing is another thing. It does not use the words like or as. E.g. He was a lion in the battle field She was a spring flower Hyperbole It is another very commonly used figure of speech, which simply translated means exaggeration. E.g. A thousand times I begged his pardon, A city filled with misers and louts Personification Personification simply means making inanimate things behave in a very human like way. E.g. The wind whispers secrets in my ears Litotes This is generally used in a humorous context. It creates an impact by denying the opposite of what is true. E.g. I never said I didn't hit him The burglar didn't mind the diamonds he found Oxymoron It is a contradictory phrase E.g. Your answers are perfectly wrong, It is genuinely fake Synecdoche It uses either the part of an object to describe the whole or vice versa.E.g. The face that launched a thousand ships Indian won the match by a 100 runs Anaphora It is the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive clauses E.g. Her love made her live, her love made her grieve Her beauty was her best friend, her beauty her worst enemy Apostrophe It is a diversion of discourse from the topic at hand to addressing some person or thing, either present or absent. E.g. My love for you drives me to great depths Will I live normally again? Oh God! Tell me Is my love even true Or is this what my fate drives me to do?? Paradox It is a seemingly contradictory statement at first reading, but yet on deeper perusal makes sense E.g. She lives among us, ten years after her death

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