Jose Rizal University

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Figures of Speech














Submitted by:
Reyes, Mary Vivian F.
HUM11-401A






Submitted to:
Dr. May Perez Samson





September 30, 2011
Simile
As clear as crystal

Metaphor
Your sister is an angel.

Irony
I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was
quaking from head to foot, and could have hung my hat on my
eyes, they stuck out so far.

Oxymoron
Health food makes me sick.

Allegory
My style is public negotiations for parity, rather than private
negotiations for position.

Onomatopoeia
I'm getting married in the morning!

Antithesis
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

Paradox
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.

Polysyndeton
But all you have to do is knock on any door and say, 'If you let
me in, I'll live the way you want me to live, and I'll think the way
you want me to think,' and all the blinds'll go up and all the
windows will open, and you'll never be lonely, ever again.

Hyperbole
He snorted and hit me in the solar plexus.

Litotes
The grave's a fine a private place.

Periphrasis
The Denver Post elongated 'mustache' into 'under-nose hair
crops.


Pun
Kings worry about a receding heir line.

Metonymy
The White House asked the television networks for air time on
Monday night.

Synecdoche
We're out here, looking for the big cats.

Allusion
I violated the Noah rule: predicting rain doesn't count; building
arks does.

Personification
The wind stood up and gave a shout.

Transferred epithet
He danced the happy road home.

Apostrophe
Heaven tell me, why does he speak thus?

Climax
We'll fight them in the country, in every town and every street.
We shall not surrender!

Anticlimax
In moments of crisis I size up the situation in a flash, set my
teeth, contract my muscles, take a firm grip on myself and,
without a tremor, always do the wrong thing.

Anastrophe
Intelligent she was not. In fact, she veered in the opposite
direction

Hyperbaton
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall

Inversion
What they talked of all evening long, no one remembered next
day.


Metathesis
He frevently plied his ardour

Asyndeton
I will buy you a drink; you do not deserve it.

Aphaeresis
Can I 'scape this dull place?

Syncope
She's ta'en away me precious heart!

Apocope
Season your admiration for a while with an attent ear.

Ellipsis
John, that way; Jane, there.

Scesis onamaton
Later, alligator!

Zeugma
She wore a pink hat and a beatific smile.

Anapodoton
Now that just goes to show!

Anthimeria
I am not inhelpful.

Antisthecon
Mary, Mary, are you vary good? Do you cary wood for the fire?

Alliteration
Health, happiness and hope for the New Year!

Assonance
Newly cut the yew stuck, quivering, in the morning dew.

Consonance
Run for fun and everyone.



Antanaclasis
Those who are not fired with enthusiasm, will be fired, with
enthusiasm.
Anaphora
Blessed are the good and blessed are the poor.

Epistrophe
Looking good, feeling good.

Symploce
I cannot begin to love you. I cannot recommend anyone else to
love you.

Epanalepsis
Buy this car and you'll be glad you decided to buy this today.

Anadiplosis
If you are going to play wolf, play wolf like the real thing

Antimetabole
We eat to live, not live to eat.

Chiasmus
She gave me hope and hopefully I gave my loyalty.

Isocolon
I converse with God, I hear the Devil, I choose myself, I act
alone.

Pleonasm
The sound of the music is loud.

Tautology
It's a new and innovative idea

Germination/Epizeuxis
I am lost, lost, lost unto the darkening seas.

Prosthesis
I shall beweep thy reprisoning.

Epenthesis
Happipily bounciling along.

Paragoge
I like your trucky.