Poetry, Figures of speech
FIGURES OF SPEECH: literary resources used to provide vividness, intensity and beauty to poetry and prose.”
RESEMBLANCE
METAPHOR: transfers attributes from one object to another, identifies.
The bishop was a pillar of the church (pillar=strength : bishop= strength)
He was a very serpent on my path (serpent= evil, danger: he=evil, danger)
SIMILE: compares two things to clarify the meaning of one of them by using “as” or “like” to link them
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold (Assyrians are a fierce as a wolf attacking sheep)
PERSONIFICATION: attributes qualities of humans to objects or abstract ideas
Rebellion raised its ugly face (people have faces, not rebellions)
The lilies and roses were all awake (flowers don’t sleep /stay awake, people do)
ASSOCIATION
SYNECDOCHE: represents the whole of a thing by the name of one of its parts
No useless coffin enclosed his breast (breast=part of the body)
All hands to pump (hands=part of men)
METONYMY: the name of an attribute of the object replaces the object itself
The loyal subjects continued to support the crown (crown=king)
The kettle is boiling (kettle=water)
The pen is mightier than the sword (pen=writer; sword=soldier)
SYNAESTHESIA: sense transference, when you describe one kind of sensation in terms of another (e.g.: smell with colour)
Tasting of Flora and the country green (taste, smell and colour)
Of music so delicate, soft and intense (sound with sense)
HYPALLAGE: transfer and adjective from its appropriate noun to another to which it does not properly belong
The passed a sleepless night (a man can be sleepless, not a night)
Melissa shook her doubtful curls (Melissa can be doubtful, not her curls
PUN: use a word in more than one sense in the same sentence, mostly homonyms or homophones for the sake of humor
Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man (grave=serious; grave=dead)
Is life worth living? That depends on the liver (liver=organ; liver=person
RESEMBLANCE
METAPHOR: transfers attributes from one object to another, identifies.
The bishop was a pillar of the church (pillar=strength : bishop= strength)
He was a very serpent on my path (serpent= evil, danger: he=evil, danger)
SIMILE: compares two things to clarify the meaning of one of them by using “as” or “like” to link them
The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold (Assyrians are a fierce as a wolf attacking sheep)
PERSONIFICATION: attributes qualities of humans to objects or abstract ideas
Rebellion raised its ugly face (people have faces, not rebellions)
The lilies and roses were all awake (flowers don’t sleep /stay awake, people do)
ASSOCIATION
SYNECDOCHE: represents the whole of a thing by the name of one of its parts
No useless coffin enclosed his breast (breast=part of the body)
All hands to pump (hands=part of men)
METONYMY: the name of an attribute of the object replaces the object itself
The loyal subjects continued to support the crown (crown=king)
The kettle is boiling (kettle=water)
The pen is mightier than the sword (pen=writer; sword=soldier)
SYNAESTHESIA: sense transference, when you describe one kind of sensation in terms of another (e.g.: smell with colour)
Tasting of Flora and the country green (taste, smell and colour)
Of music so delicate, soft and intense (sound with sense)
HYPALLAGE: transfer and adjective from its appropriate noun to another to which it does not properly belong
The passed a sleepless night (a man can be sleepless, not a night)
Melissa shook her doubtful curls (Melissa can be doubtful, not her curls
PUN: use a word in more than one sense in the same sentence, mostly homonyms or homophones for the sake of humor
Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man (grave=serious; grave=dead)
Is life worth living? That depends on the liver (liver=organ; liver=person