20 Important Figures of Speech
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This guide is essential for anyone studying literature, especially poetry. Twenty Important Figures of Speech are explained clearly and in detail. The following are the unique features of this guide:
•Clear explanations using both everyday examples and literary examples
•Systematic and logical arrangement
•Exercises to test understanding
•Detailed Answers to Exercises
•Most other Figures of Speech can be linked to these 20
•Helpful Hints on how to memorize these Figures of Speech.
Pervaiz Salik
Author's Background I have an honours degree in Mathematics from the Open University and taught in Scotland before gaining an M.A. in English Literature. I taught English to O Level International GCSE Cambridge students for 14 years in Pakistan and was Head of Department. My Haiku is published in UNESCO’S Cultural Report 2000. One of my stories (in a much shorter form) was accepted for publication by Oxford University Press, but never published. I have published ten e-books on short stories, essays, poems, spelling and religion on Amazon and smashwords. (Pervaiz Salik) July 2015
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20 Important Figures of Speech
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Pervaiz Salik
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Contents
Chapter 1
Exercise 1 on Figures of Speech
Answers to Exercise 1
Chapter 2
Exercise 2 on Figures of Speech
Answers to Exercise 2
Chapter 3
Exercise 3 on Figures of Speech
Answers to Exercise 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 1
Figures of Speech
The first nine common figures of speech are presented and explained below.
1. A Simile is a comparison of one thing with another which it resembles in one respect using as or like to make the comparison.
Examples:
(1) Your hands are as cold as ice.
Comment:
Hands are not like ice, but here they are similar to ice because they are both cold.
(2) He fought like a lion.
Comment:
He is not a lion, nor does he look like one, but when fighting, he can be compared to a lion.
2.