FIGURE OF SPEECH

The Top 20 Figures

1. Alliteration
   Repetition of an initial consonant sound.


2. Anaphora
   Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.



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



4. Apostrophe
   Breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character.



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



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



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



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



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



10. Litotes
    A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.



11. Metaphor
    An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common.



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



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



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



15. Paradox
    A statement that appears to contradict itself.



16. Personification
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities.



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.



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



19. Synechdoche
    A figure of speech is which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it.



20. Understatement
    A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is.

"8 PART OF SPEECH"

This is a summary of the 8 parts of speech*.

Part of Speech	Function or "Job"	Example words	Example sentences
Verb	action or state	(to) be, have, do, like, work, sing, can, must	EnglishClub.com is a web site. I like EnglishClub.com.
Noun	thing or person	pen, dog, work, music, town, London, teacher, John	This is my dog. He lives in my house. We live in London.
Adjective	describes a noun	a/an, the, 69, some, good, big, red, well, interesting	My dog is big. I like big dogs.
Adverb	describes a verb, adjective or adverb	quickly, silently, well, badly, very, really	My dog eats quickly. When he is very hungry, he eats really quickly.
Pronoun	replaces a noun	I, you, he, she, some	Tara is Indian. She is beautiful.
Preposition	links a noun to another word	to, at, after, on, but	We went to school on Monday.
Conjunction	joins clauses or sentences or words	and, but, when	I like dogs and I like cats. I like cats and dogs. I like dogs but I don't like cats.
Interjection	short exclamation, sometimes inserted into a sentence	oh!, ouch!, hi!, well	Ouch! That hurts! Hi! How are you? Well, I don't know.

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