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What are Figures of Speech?
What are and how do you define Figures of Speech? The
definition of is as follows:
English Grammar &
Terminology
Figurative Language
In Figurative Language we
employ words in such a way that they differ somewhat
from their ordinary signification in commonplace
speech and convey our meaning in a more vivid and
impressive manner than when we use them in their
every-day sense. Figures make speech more effective,
they beautify and emphasize it.
Figures of speech are
organised into different categories such as
alliteration, metaphor, similes etc and used as a poetic
device
Definition of Figurative
Language
Examples Help! Figures of Speech
Figures of
speech are organised into different categories such as
alliteration, metaphor, similes etc and used as a poetic device.
These expressions use words or sounds which are arranged in a
particular way to achieve a specific effect. Figures of
speech use word association to convey emotion and mood often in
a non-literal sense. Figures of speech add adornment,
beautifies, colors, elegant variation, embellishment,
embroidery, emphasis, exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony,
lushness and and adds luxuriance to the English language and
often used by famous poets as a poetic device.
Examples Help! Figures of Speech
There are
four kinds of figures:
Orthography
which change the spelling of a word
Etymology
which change the form of words
Syntax which
change the construction of sentences
Rhetoric or
the art of speaking and writing effectively which change
the mode of thought
List of 10 Figures of Speech - Categories
Figures of speech are organised into different categories.
The principal, most important and those categories most often used as a
poetic device are
detailed in the following 10 figures of speech:
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Allegory
Metonymy
Hyperbole
Apostrophe
Antithesis
Epigram
Irony
Definitions and
examples of all of these and many other figures of speech
and poetic devices can be accessed via the index page link:
Examples Help -
Figures of Speech
There are many other figures of speech which give piquancy to
language and play upon words in such a way as to convey a
meaning different from their ordinary signification in common
every-day speech and writing
Examples Help -
Figures of Speech - Understanding English Grammar!
English Grammar applies rules for standard use of words and how
their component parts combine to form sentences. A grammar is
also a system for classifying and analyzing the elements of
language including inflections, functions, rules and relations
in the sentence. This page about Figures of Speech will help with the
understanding of this subject.
Figures of Speech
English Grammar & Terminology
Figurative Language
List
of 10 figures of speech - Simile, Metaphor,
Personification, Allegory, Metonymy, Hyperbole,
Apostrophe, Antithesis, Epigram and Irony
Definition and classification
Definitions, samples and examples of different
English Grammar & Terminology - Poetic
device
What
are the parts in English Grammar?
Definitions, samples and examples of different
English Grammar
List
of 10 figures of speech - Simile, Metaphor,
Personification, Allegory, Metonymy, Hyperbole,
Apostrophe, Antithesis, Epigram and Irony
