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    Figures of speech are words or phrases that depart from straightforward literal language and are often used for emphasis, expression, or clarity. The document defines and provides examples of several common figures of speech including simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, irony, and imagery. Specifically, it explains that a simile compares two unlike things using like or as, a metaphor compares two unlike things without like or as, alliteration repeats initial consonant sounds, personification gives human qualities to non-human things, irony uses words to convey the opposite meaning, and imagery uses descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

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    Figures of speech are words or phrases that depart from straightforward literal language and are often used for emphasis, expression, or clarity. The document defines and provides examples of several common figures of speech including simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, irony, and imagery. Specifically, it explains that a simile compares two unlike things using like or as, a metaphor compares two unlike things without like or as, alliteration repeats initial consonant sounds, personification gives human qualities to non-human things, irony uses words to convey the opposite meaning, and imagery uses descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

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    Figures of speech are words or phrases that depart from straightforward literal language and are often used for emphasis, expression, or clarity. The document defines and provides examples of several common figures of speech including simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, irony, and imagery. Specifically, it explains that a simile compares two unlike things using like or as, a metaphor compares two unlike things without like or as, alliteration repeats initial consonant sounds, personification gives human qualities to non-human things, irony uses words to convey the opposite meaning, and imagery uses descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

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    Figures of Speech

    By: Dimpy Chhabra X-D

    Figures of Speech
    Figures of speech are words or phrases that depart from straightforward literal language. Figures of speech are often used and crafted for emphasis, freshness, expression, or clarity.

    Types of Figures of Speech


    Simile Metaphor Alliteration Personification Irony Imagery

    SIMILE
    A simile is the comparison of two Unlike things using like or as .
    He eats like a pig. You are as pretty as a picture.

    METAPHOR
    A metaphor is the comparison of two unlike things or expressions, sometimes using the verb to be, and not using like or as (as in a simile). To be (am, is, are, was, were)

    METAPHOR
    He is a pig. You are a tulip. From A Meditation for his Mistress ~Robert Herrick

    ALLITERATION
    Alliteration is the repetition of initial consonant sounds of neighboring words.
    Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

    ALLITERATION
    She left the Heaven of Heroes and came down To make a man to meet the mortal need, A man to match the mountains and the sea, The friendly welcome of the wayside well. From Lincoln, the Man of the People ~Edwin Markham

    PERSONIFICATION
    A personification is when we give inanimate objects or abstract things human qualities. In other words, it is when we treat things as if they are real. For example, the wind groaned.

    PERSONIFICATION
    A

    ghost of time to rise. (time is personified). Laughter holding both her sides. (laughter is personified).

    IRONY
    An irony is the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning , a statement or situation where the meaning is contradictive by the appearance or presentation of the idea.

    IRONY
    My foe of course he was. Wisdom shall die with you. Faithful of course she lived. When wisdom day be purchased with a sneeze.

    IMAGERY
    Image refers to the use of descriptive language that evokes sensory experience that can appeal to any of the five senses.

    IMAGERY
    The

    waves are raging white. It was grassy and wanted wear. Many a silvery waterbreak.

    WELL DONE!

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