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    This document defines and provides examples of 20 different figures of speech: alliteration, anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, euphemism, hyperbole, irony, litotes, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, personification, pun, simile, synecdoche, and understatement. Each figure of speech is a rhetorical device that involves particular techniques for structuring language or playing with meanings, such as repeating initial consonant sounds, contrasting balanced phrases, or making indirect references. The examples given illustrate how each technique can be applied.

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    This document defines and provides examples of 20 different figures of speech: alliteration, anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, euphemism, hyperbole, irony, litotes, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, paradox, personification, pun, simile, synecdoche, and understatement. Each figure of speech is a rhetorical device that involves particular techniques for structuring language or playing with meanings, such as repeating initial consonant sounds, contrasting balanced phrases, or making indirect references. The examples given illustrate how each technique can be applied.

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    My Journal

    Erlie Recie Jane S. Colarte ABM-1101

    Gabrielle Kaitlynne Caubat


    FIGURES OF SPEECH
    1. Alliteration: The repetition of an initial consonant sound.

    Example: She sells seashells by the seashore.

    2. Anaphora: The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive
    clauses or verses.

    Example: Unfortunately, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time on the wrong day.

    3. Antithesis: The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases.

    Example:As Abraham Lincoln said, "Folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

    4. Apostrophe: Directly addressing a nonexistent person or an inanimate object as though


    it were a living being.

    Example: "Oh, you stupid car, you never work when I need you to," Bert sighed.

    5. Assonance: Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring


    words.

    Example: How now, brown cow?

    6. Chiasmus: A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against
    the first but with the parts reversed.

    Example: The famous chef said people should live to eat, not eat to live.

    7. Euphemism: The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively


    explicit.

    Example: "We're teaching our toddler how to go potty," Bob said.

    8. Hyperbole: An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of
    emphasis or heightened effect.

    Example: I have a ton of things to do when I get home.

    9. Irony: The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. Also, a statement
    or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the
    idea.

    Example: "Oh, I love spending big bucks," said my dad, a notorious penny pincher.

    10. Litotes: A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is


    expressed by negating its opposite.

    Example: A million dollars is no small chunk of change.


    11. Metaphor: An implied comparison between two dissimilar things that have something
    in common.

    Example: "All the world's a stage."

    12. Metonymy: A figure of speech in a word or phrase is substituted for another with which
    it's closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by
    referring to things around it.

    Example: "That stuffed suit with the briefcase is a poor excuse for a salesman," the
    manager said angrily.

    13. Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or
    actions they refer to.

    Example: The clap of thunder went bang and scared my poor dog.

    14. Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side
    by side.

    Example: "He popped the jumbo shrimp in his mouth."

    15. Paradox: A statement that appears to contradict itself.

    Example: "This is the beginning of the end," said Eeyore, always the pessimist.

    16. Personification: A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is


    endowed with human qualities or abilities.

    Example: That kitchen knife will take a bite out of your hand if you don't handle it safely.

    17. Pun: A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes
    on the similar sense or sound of different words. Example: Jessie looked up from her
    breakfast and said, "A boiled egg every morning is hard to beat."

    18. Simile: A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two
    fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.

    Example: Roberto was white as a sheet after he walked out of the horror movie.

    19. Synecdoche: A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole.

    Example: Tina is learning her ABC's in preschool.

    20. Understatement: A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a


    situation seem less important or serious than it is.

    Example: "You could say Babe Ruth was a decent ballplayer," the reporter said with a
    wink.

    ERLIE RECIE JANE S. COLARTE ABM-1101

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