Figure of speech

• A figure of speech is a phrase or word used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or rich effect. It is an expression that is different from its literal meaning. It FUNCTIONS as an image maker to better understand poems, and situations used in the reading text.
• SIMILE - In simile two unlike things are explicitly compared. It is introduced by words such as like, so, as etc.
• METAPHOR - It is an informal or implied simile in which words like, as, so are omitted. For example, "He is like a lion (Simile) "and "He is a lion (metaphor)".
• PERSONIFICATION - is an attribution of personal nature, intelligence or character to inanimate objects or, the thirsty ground, and the abstract notions.
• APOSTROPHE - It is a direct address to some inanimate thing or some abstract idea as if it were living person or some absent person as if it were present.
• SYNECDOCHE - is the understanding of one thing by means of another. Here, a part is used to designate the whole or the whole to designate a part.
• METONYMY - is meant for a change of name. It is a substitute of the thing names for the thing meant.
• HYPERBOLE is a statement made emphatic by overstatement.
• CLIMAX - It is an arrangement of a series of ideas in the order of increasing importance.
• OXYMORON - It is a figure of speech which combines two seemingly contradictory or incongruous words for sharp emphasis or effect.
• Paradox - a sentence that contradicts itself
• Irony - a sentence with two independent clauses that contradict each other.
• ALLITERATION - The repetition of the same letter or syllable at the beginning of two or more words is called alliteration.
• ONOMATΟΡΟΕΙΑ - The formation of a word whose sound is made to suggest or echo the sense as in cuckoo, bang, growl, hiss.