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Figure Of Speech Examples Devices Questions For Success
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- Figures of Speech
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- Yale University
Figure Of Speech Examples Devices Questions For Success
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Figure Of Speech Examples Devices QuestionsFor Success
figure of speech - ANS a word or phrase that has a meaning something different
than its literal meaning
Alliteration - ANS the repetition of beginning sounds
Alliteration examples - ANS Sally sells seashells.
Walter wondered where Winnie was.
Blue baby bonnets
Anaphora - ANS technique where several phrases or verses begin with the same
word or words.
Anaphora ex - ANS I came, I saw, I conquered - Julius Caesar
Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition! King John - William Shakespeare
We laughed, we loved, we sang
Assonance - ANS the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together
Assonance ex - ANS O - Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn (Wordsworth)
, U - Uncertain rustling of each purple curtain (Poe)
Euphemism - ANS a word or phrase that replaces a word or phrase to make it
more polite or pleasant
Euphemism ex - ANS A little thin on top instead of bald
Homeless instead of bum
Letting him go instead of fired him
Hyperbole - ANS uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect
Hyperbole ex - ANS She is older than dirt
I've told you a hundred times
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse
Irony - ANS using words where the meaning is the opposite of their usual meaning
Irony ex - ANS Dramatic irony is knowing the killer is hiding in a closet in a scary
movie
After begging for a cat and finally getting one, she found out she was allergic.
A traffic cop gets suspended for not paying his parking tickets.
Metaphor - ANS compares two unlike things or ideas
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