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    Figures of Speech

    Simile
     Compares one thing to
    another using “like” or “as”

    Examples:
    The milk tasted like pickles.
    It was as dry as a bone.
    Life is like a box of
    chocolates.
    Onomatopoeia
     Using words that sound like their meaning

    Examples:
    buzz splat crash whoosh

    moo pow chug whew


    beep bam bang chirp
    Buzz went the bees.
    WHAM
    Moo said the cow.
    !
    Metaphor
     A comparison between two things
    which does not use like or as.
     May sound false at first, but is a clever
    way to make a point.

    Examples:
    My love is a rose.
    You are my sunshine.
    America is a melting pot.
    Idiom
     A language familiar to a group of
    people.
     The dialect of people or a region.

    Examples:
    That was easy as pie.
    Boy, my brain was cookin’.
    Ya’ll comin’ to da party tonight?
    Hyperbole
     A large exaggeration, usually
    used with humor.

    Examples:
     Her feet were so big she could
    go water skiing without the
    skies.
     I cried rivers of tears.
    Assonance
     A repetition of vowel sounds
    within syllables with
    changing consonants.

    Examples:
    Tilting at windmills.
    The rain in Spain falls mainly
    in the plains.
    Alliteration
     Starting three or more words
    with the same sound.

    Examples:
    A skunk sat on a stump.
    Wendy worries about her weird
    wart.
    She sells seashells by the
    seashore.
    Personification
     Assigning the qualities of a person
    to something that isn’t human.

    Examples:
    The leaves danced in the wind.
    Opportunity knocked on the door.
    At precisely 6:30 a.m. my alarm clock
    sprang to life.
    Imagery
     The reader can picture the scene in his
    mind.
     Usually appeals to the 5 senses.

    Examples:
     A host of golden daffodils.
     Beside the noisy lake.
    Oxymoron
     A figure of speech in which incongruous
    or contradictory terms appear side by
    side;
    Examples:
     "O brawling love! O loving hate! . . .
    (William Shakespeare)
     “Cold fire”
     “Bittersweet romance”
    Paradox
     is a typically a true statement or a group
    of statements, which seems to lead to
    some contradiction.

    Examples:
      "War is peace."
    "Freedom is slavery."
    "Ignorance is strength."
    (George Orwell, 1984)
    Irony
     is similar to sarcasm, which is saying the opposite
    meaning of something for effect. 

    Examples:
     “She is so beautiful that nobody asks her out.”
     Brilliant, I’ve been fired!
    Apostrophe
     A figure of speech in which some absent or
    nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present
    and capable of understanding.

    Examples:
     "O western wind, when wilt thou blow
    That the small rain down can rain?"
    (anonymous, 16th c.)

     "Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief."


    (Christopher Marlowe)
    Let’s try! 
     is similar to sarcasm, which is saying the
    opposite meaning of something for effect. 
     It is a comparison between two things which
    does not use “like” or “as”.
     A figure of speech in which some absent or
    nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if
    present and capable of understanding.
     Usually appeals to the 5 senses
     A large exaggeration, usually used with
    humor.
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    Toda
    Love’s Inconsistency

    I find no peace, yet all my war is done;


    I fear and hope, I burn and freeze likewise;
    I fly aloft, yet I cannot rise;
    And nought I have, yet all the world I seize on,

    That loosens, nor locks, holds me in prison,


    And holds me not, yet can I escape no wise:
    Nor lets me live, nor die, at my devise,
    And yet of death it gives me no occasion.

    Without eyes I see; without tongue I plain;


    I wish to perish, yet I ask for health;
    I love another, and yet I hate myself;
    I feed in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain.
    Lo, thus displeases me both death and life,
    And my delight is causer of this strife.
    -Franceso Petrarch
    Quote, quote, quote ! 

    “Poetry is finer and more philosophical


    than history; for poetry expresses the
    universal, and history only the
    particular.”

    - Aristotle

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