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Figure of Speech

This document defines and provides examples of 12 common figures of speech: synecdoche, simile, personification, oxymoron, metonymy, metaphor, irony, hyperbole, euphemism, ellipsis, asyndeton, and apostrophe. Synecdoche represents a whole with a part. A simile makes an indirect comparison using "like" or "as." Personification gives human attributes to non-human things. An oxymoron contains a self-contradicting term. Metonymy substitutes a related term for something. A metaphor directly compares two unlike things.

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Figure of Speech

This document defines and provides examples of 12 common figures of speech: synecdoche, simile, personification, oxymoron, metonymy, metaphor, irony, hyperbole, euphemism, ellipsis, asyndeton, and apostrophe. Synecdoche represents a whole with a part. A simile makes an indirect comparison using "like" or "as." Personification gives human attributes to non-human things. An oxymoron contains a self-contradicting term. Metonymy substitutes a related term for something. A metaphor directly compares two unlike things.

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FIGURE OF SPEECH

SYNEDOCHE – an association of some important part with the whole it


represents.
- Example: The face who launched a thousand ships.
SIMILE – an indirect association.
- Example: She is like a flower.
PERSONIFCATION – giving human attributes to an inanimate object (animal,
idea, etc.)
- Example: The sun is looking down on me.
OXYMORON – a self-contrasting statement.
- Example: Loud silence
METONYMY – an association wherein the name of something is substituted by
something that represents it.
- Example: Toothpaste is sometimes called Colgate.
MATAPHOR – a direct comparison.
- Example: You are the sunshine of my life.
IRONY – the contrast between what was expected and what actually happened.
- Example: No smoking sign during a cigarette break.
HYPERBOLE – an exaggeration.
- Example: Cry me a river.
EUPHEMISM – creating a positive connotation out of something negative.
- Example: Comport women (prostitute)
ELLIPSIS – omission of words in a sentence.
- Example: She walked away and so the world turns….
ASYNDETON – not putting any connectors (conjunctions or prepositions).
- Example: No retreat, no surrender
APOSTROPHE – a direct address to an abstract things or a person who passed
away.
- Example: Love, please come and take me!

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