A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition‚ arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it‚ as in idiom‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ hyperbole‚ or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity
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which it has become closer associated because of a recurrent relation in common experience. For examples ‘The crown’ or ‘the scepter’ are used to signify king. ‘Hollywood’ for film industry‚ Dramatic monologue A monologue is a lengthy speech by a single person. In a play‚ when a character utter a monologue that expresses his or her private thought ‚ it is called soliloquy. Dramatic monologue‚ however‚ does not designate a component in the play‚ but a type of lyric poem that was perfected
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Figures of Speech [ Examples ] 1. Metaphor ❖ "But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." (William Sharp‚ "The Lonely Hunter") ❖ "Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another." (Charles Colton‚ Lacon) 2. Simile ❖ "Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong." (slogan of Pan-American Coffee Bureau)
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Figures of Speech 1. Alliteration - The repetition of an initial consonant sound. 2. Allusion - Figure of speech that makes a reference to or representation of‚ a place‚ event‚ literary work‚ myth‚ or work of art‚ either directly or by implication. 3. Antithesis - The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. 4. Apostrophe - Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing‚ some abstract quality‚ an inanimate object‚ or a nonexistent character.
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------------------------------------------------- Figure of speech From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia "Figures of speech" redirects here. For the hip hop group‚ see Figures of Speech. A figure of speech is the use of a word or words diverging from its usual meaning. It can also be a special repetition‚ arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning‚ or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it‚ as in idiom‚ metaphor‚ simile‚ hyperbole‚ or personification. Figures of speech often provide
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Figures of speech As one of the articles in this issue deals with the English Language Fair held at the Barbican Centre last autumn‚ this might be a good opportunity to concentrate on varieties of English style. Let’s start with the use of imagery. The passage chosen for comment comes from The Guardian‚ a newspaper famous or notorious for its misprints as well as for the depth and seriousness of its new coverage. If the name of the writer‚ Roy Hattersley‚ seems familiar - yes‚ it’s the same
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"The Waste Land" is a modernist poem by T. S. Eliot caused a sensation when it was published in 1922. It is today the most widely translated and studied English-language poem of the twentieth century. This is perhaps surprising given the poem’s length and its difficulty‚ but Eliot’s vision of modern life as plagued by sordid impulses‚ widespread apathy‚ and pervasive soullessness packed a punch when readers first encountered it. Pound’s influence on the final version of "The Waste Land" is significant
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lives this and this gives life to thee. 3. Personification Once by the Pacific By: Robert Frost The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in‚ And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before. The clouds were low and hairy in the skies‚ Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes. You could not tell‚ and yet it looked as if The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff‚ The cliff in being backed by continent; It looked as
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The waste Land T.S.Eliot complcted ‘The Waste Land’ in the autumn of 1921‚ and with the constructive suggestions of Ezra Pound about the structure of the poem ‚the present draft of the poem ‚ which was published in 1922‚ has become a classic. It is also‚ more importantly‚ the symbol of a whole age‚ signifying a new kind of poetry and a poetic revolution in modern English Literature and culture. The poem is a masterpiece of innovative poetic design and embodies an entirely new and original poetic
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Name ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Dateــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Activity 1: Simile and Metaphor Decide whether the sentence contains a simile or a metaphor‚ and identify the two things being compared. Then change the simile into metaphor and vice versa: 1. The lake was a huge mirror in the moonlight. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. The dancer moved around the
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