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Figures of Speech Figures of Speech (Literary Items) : Example "She Is As Brave As A Lion."

This document provides definitions and examples of common figures of speech used in poetry, including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, antithesis, assonance, and paradox. It includes exercises asking the reader to identify the figure of speech used in example sentences. The figures of speech are defined as comparisons between two unlike things (simile and metaphor), representing non-human things as human (personification), exaggeration (hyperbole), words with the same first consonant sound (alliteration), contrasting ideas/words (antithesis), similarity in internal vowel sounds (assonance), and contradictory statements (paradox).

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Figures of Speech Figures of Speech (Literary Items) : Example "She Is As Brave As A Lion."

This document provides definitions and examples of common figures of speech used in poetry, including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, antithesis, assonance, and paradox. It includes exercises asking the reader to identify the figure of speech used in example sentences. The figures of speech are defined as comparisons between two unlike things (simile and metaphor), representing non-human things as human (personification), exaggeration (hyperbole), words with the same first consonant sound (alliteration), contrasting ideas/words (antithesis), similarity in internal vowel sounds (assonance), and contradictory statements (paradox).

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Poetry

Introduction
Figures of Speech
Figures of Speech (Literary Definition
Items)
Simile A simile is a figure of speech that uses
comparison. In a simile, we use two specific
words “like” and “as” to compare two unlikely
things that actually have nothing in common.
EXAMPLE  "She is as brave as a lion.”

Metaphor A metaphor and a simile are quite similar


actually. A metaphor also uses compares to
things that are in no way similar.
EXAMPLE  “Alex is a chicken.”

Personification We personify or represent non-human things as


human.
EXAMPLE  "The wind howled as the storm
grew stronger.”

Hyperbole Exaggeration. We use hyperboles to


emphasize the importance of something.
EXAMPLE  "The shoes cost fortune."

Exercise: Identify the figures of speech in the following:-

1. Time ran away from him.


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2. She has gotten as thin as a toothpick.
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3. She is quite like a mouse.
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4. All the world’s a stage.
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5. He is as tall as a mountain.
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…………………….

Figures of Speech Definition


Alliteration words, usually two or more neighboring words, have
the same first consonant sound

EXAMPLE  Peter picked a peck of pickled


peppers
Antithesis Contrasting ideas or words.

EXAMPLE  "That's one small step for man, one


giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong

Assonance the similarity in sound between internal vowels in


neighboring words.

EXAMPLE  How now, brown cow?

Paradox A statement that appears to contradict itself.

EXAMPLE  "This is the beginning of the end."

Exercise: Identify the figure of speech in the following:-


1. I know one thing: that I know nothing.
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2. When there is need of silence, you speak.
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3. The child bounced the ball at the backyard barbeque.
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4. Grass grows greener in the graveyard.
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