Figures of Speech Metonymy Assonance: Bread For Food The Army For A Soldier Copper For A Penny

FIGURES OF SPEECH Assonance
• Is the repetition of vowel sounds at the

Metonymy beginning, middle, or end of a word.
• It is a figure of speech that replaces the name of • Example:
a thing with the name of something else with  He is all pine, and I apple orchard (a
which it is closely associated. sound)
• Example:
 Crown, for kings Consonance
 Red-coats, for British soldiers • Is the repetition of consonant sounds
anywhere within a word.
Synechdoche • Example:
• a figure of speech in which the word for part of  Lies stretching to my dazzled sight/ A
something is used to mean the whole, e.g. "sail" luminous belt, a misty light (s and l
for "boat," or vice versa sounds)
• Example:
 bread for food Repetition
 the army for a soldier • Words or phrases repeated in writing to
 copper for a penny produce emphasis, rhythm, and/or sense of
urgency.
Onomatopeia • Example:
• It is the usage of word which best demonstrates  The cook was a good cook, as cooks go;
the sound it makes. and as cooks go, she went.
• Comics are a good resource to find these  “I…I…I…don’t have Mme. Forestier’s
“sound words” such as: crash, boom, bang, necklace.”
crunch, kerplunk, zap and buzz.
• Examples: Parallelism
 The water gurgled down the drain. • It is the repetition of words, phrases or
 The little kid slurped his soup. sentence structures. It adds
 The noisy chicken clucked her head off! • It adds rhythm and emotional impact to
writing.
Hyperbole • It appears in poetry, speeches, and other
• It is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to literary forms.
give a certain impact within your statement. • Example:
• Examples:  Not only is she my mother, but she is also
 Sounds like a herd of buffalo! my best friend. …not only, but also
 Working like a dog!  I need her to love me, to comfort me, and
 She’s madder than an old wet hen! to protect me.
 I bit off more than I can chew!
Paradox
Alliteration • An extended oxymoron.
• It happens when the beginning of words start • It pits contradictory ideas against one another
with the same constant sounds. so that the statement appears to be untrue.
• All the words must be close together. • When the reader evaluates a paradox in
• Examples: context, he or she discovers the paradox to hold
 Sally Sold seven sea shells at the sea a profound truth.
shore. • Example:
 The crazy cat climbed up the crooked  “Good men must not obey the laws too
cable. well.” Ralph Waldo Emmerson
 “Much Madness is Divinest Sense” Emily
Dickinson
Oxymoron You win 10 million dollars in a lottery. When
• A two to three word phrase that contains you tell a news reporter “I am delighted.”
opposite words or ideas
• Example: Euphemism
 Working Vacation  refers to polite, indirect expressions that
 Wise fool replace words and phrases considered harsh
 Plastic Glasses and impolite, or which suggest something
unpleasant.
Allusion  Example:
• A reference made to a famous person, place, or “kick the bucket” is a euphemism that
event. describes the death of a person.
• Allusions should be familiar to the author’s
intended audience for them to be effective.
• Example:
 Mary said, “Cale is my Prince Charming!”
 Kevin doesn’t do so well in math, but in
art class, he’s a regular Picasso.
Irony
• Is a contradictory statement or situation
• use of words that mean the opposite of what
you really think
• Example:
 Having a free ride on roller coaster after
you have already paid.
 This is my brilliant son who failed out of
college.
 She’s a great singer who sings like a crow.
Apostrophe
• direct address of an absent or dead person or
personified thing
• Example:
 God, help me!
 Ambition, you’re a cruel master!
Pun
 play on words, usually done for deliberate
humorous effect.
 Example
The pun is mightier than the word.
Now is the winter of our discontent made
glorious summer by this son of York.
When does Ella faint? When she blows her
trunket.
Understatement
 make a situation seem less important than it
really is.
 Example:

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• Is the repetition of vowel sounds at the

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