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This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech used in English literature, including alliteration, allusion, apostrophe, assonance, consonance, hyperbaton, hyperbole, metaphor, oxymoron, parallelism, personification, rhetorical question, simile, and synecdoche. Each term is defined concisely in 1-2 sentences and an example from literature is given.

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Figures of Speech PDF

This document defines and provides examples of various figures of speech used in English literature, including alliteration, allusion, apostrophe, assonance, consonance, hyperbaton, hyperbole, metaphor, oxymoron, parallelism, personification, rhetorical question, simile, and synecdoche. Each term is defined concisely in 1-2 sentences and an example from literature is given.

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FIGURES OF SPEECH

Literature of the English speaking countries I - 2018


ALLITERATION
• Repeating the starting consonant in several
words

“(…) I think it had certain quailities of hospitality, of


humour, of humanity (…)”
ALLUSION
• Mention someone or something well-known
using other words or references.

“(…) West Briton! (…)”


.”

APOSTROPHE

• Adressing an object or something inanimate


as if it was a person
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee!
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still”
.”

ASSONANCE

• When the vowel is repeated


“The fat of the land”
.”

CONSONANCE

• When the consonant is repeated


“And haven’t you your own land to visit (…) that
you know nothing of, your own people, and your
own country?”
.”

HYPERBATON
• When the text is presented in a change of
syntax
“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall …”
.”

HYPERBOLE
• Extreme exaggeration on the amount or
size of something
“She was trying to solve a million things today”
.”

METAPHOR
• A comparison using an item
“The grandmother of Europe”
“The Lion of England”
.”

OXYMORON
• Contradictory words used to describe
something
“freezing fire”
“cruel kindness”
.”

PARALLELISM
• Comparison of two things that resemble
each other
“To err is human; to forgive divine”
.”

PERSONIFICATION
• Representation of inanimate objects as they
were alive
“The flowers danced in the gentle breeze.”
.”

RETHORICAL QUESTION
• A questions that doesn’t need to be
answered
“Maybe something happened to him, who
knows?.”
.”

SIMILIE
• A comparison made with the words “as” or
“like”
“She is as old as the hills”
.”

SYNECDOCHE
• Referring to a part of something meaning
the whole
“His eye met hers as she sat there paler and
whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious
faces about her.”

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