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Figure of Speech

The document explains various types of figurative language, including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, allusion, irony, and oxymoron. Each type is defined and accompanied by examples to illustrate its use. The content serves as an educational resource for understanding how figurative language enhances communication.

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Figure of Speech

The document explains various types of figurative language, including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, idiom, alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, allusion, irony, and oxymoron. Each type is defined and accompanied by examples to illustrate its use. The content serves as an educational resource for understanding how figurative language enhances communication.

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Figurative

Language
What is fi gurative
language?
It is a language that goes beyond the literal
meaning of words to get a message or
point across.
Simile
It is a comparison of two
unlikely things using like or as.

Examples:

1. The poster is as pretty as a


bouquet of flowers.
2. She runs like a cheetah.
metaphor
It is a comparison of two unlikely things
that does not include the word like or
as.
Examples:

1. This room is an oven.


2. The puppy is a bundle of joy.
personifi cation
It is an act of giving human qualities to
non-human things.
Examples:
1. The sun sings every
morning.
2. The playground invites us
to come and play.
Hyperbole
It is used to show
extreme exaggeration.

Examples:

1. I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.


2. The building could touch the
clouds.
Idiom
An expression whose meaning
is different from the meaning
of each word.

Examples:
1. It's raining cats and dogs.
2. You can't teach an old dog new
tricks.
alliteration
It is when words in a phrase start with
same letter or sound.

Examples:
1. Mary read a magazine last Monday
with his Mom at the mall.
2. The child bounces the ball in the
backyard.
He acts silly at times, but he was blessed

with a brilliant brain.

ASSONANCE
REPETITION OF THE SOUND OF A VOWEL
OR DIPTHONG
Examples:

1. The rain in Spain stays mainly


in the plain
2. Hear the mellow wedding bells
He acts silly at times, but he was blessed

with a brilliant brain.

consonance
REPETITION OF consonant sound from
anywhere in the word
Examples:

1. Mike likes his new bike.


2. I will crawl away the ball.
onomatopoeia
A word that sounds like the noise or action it is
describing.

Examples:

1. The jet zoomed across the


sky.
2. The old car clattered down
the street.
Allusion
Is a reference in a work of literature to
another work of literature, or to a well-
known person or place outside literature
Examples:

1. She opened Pandora’s box


2. He’s a real Romeo with the
ladies
IRONY
It is a figure of speech where words are used in such
a way that their intended meaning is different from
the actual meaning of the words. It often involves a
contrast between expectations and reality.
Irony often highlights the discrepancy between
appearance and reality, creating a difference
between what is said and what is meant, or
between what is expected and what occurs.
Examples:
1. Verbal Irony: Saying "Oh, great!" when something bad
happens.
2. Situational Irony: A fire station burns down.
3. Dramatic Irony: In a horror movie, the audience knows the
killer is in the house, but the character does not.
Oxymoron
An oxymoron is a figure of speech in
which two seemingly contradictory
terms appear in conjunction.
Unlike irony, oxymoron specifically pairs
contradictory terms together to reveal a deeper
truth or to create an effect, while irony deals with
a broader range of contrasts.
Examples:
1. Deafening silence
2. Bittersweet
Oxymoron
An oxymoron is a figure of speech in
which two seemingly contradictory
terms appear in conjunction.
Unlike irony, oxymoron specifically pairs
contradictory terms together to reveal a deeper
truth or to create an effect, while irony deals with
a broader range of contrasts.
Examples:
1. Deafening silence
2. Bittersweet
thank you for
listening!

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