Figures Of Speech

Figures of Speech

1. Alliteration: refers to the repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases.

Examples:
* Fred’s friends fried Fritos for Friday’s food.
* Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.
* Larry’s lizard likes leaping leopards.
* Mike’s microphone made much music.
* Zachary zeroed in on zoo keeping.

2. Anaphora: Therepetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

Examples:
* "I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to eroticize."
* Sir Walter Raleigh. Good food. Good cheer. Good times."
* Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks intomine."
* "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun."
* I don't like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Lebowski. I don't like your jerk-off name. I don't like your jerk-off face. I don't like your jerk-off behavior, and I don't like you, jerk-off."3. Apostrophe: The superscript sign ( ' ) used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations.

Examples:
* "Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."
* "The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
* "Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know whatto do about it if I did."
* "I will not hide the teacher's medication."
* "Teachers' unions are not ruining the country."

3. Chiasmus: is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism.

Examples:
* "Nice to see you, to see you, nice!"* "You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
* "In the end, the true test is not the speeches a president delivers; it’s whether the president delivers on the speeches."
* "I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me."
* "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

5. Euphemism: is a generally harmless word, name, or phrase that substitutes anoffensive or suggestive one.

Examples:
* Mr. Prince: We'll see you when you get back from image enhancement camp. Martin Prince: Spare me your euphemisms! It's fat camp, for Daddy's chubby little secret!
* Paul Kersey: You've got a prime figure. You really have, you know. Joanna Kersey: That's a euphemism for fat
* "The 'reconstruction' of New Orleans has become a euphemism for thedestruction of the city's cultural and historic heritage."
* "The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is.
* "Wardrobe malfunction"

6. Hyperbole: is a figure of speech used for the purpose of exaggeration. It mainly forms the basis of several jokes, is used as a way of insults, or could simply be used to dramatize a situation, where in reality; the situationmay not be that bad.

Examples:
* They ran like greased lightning
* He's got tons of money
* Her brain is the size of a pea
* He is older than the hills
* I'm so hungry I could eat a goose with its beak!

7. Irony: refers to the use of certain words that actually intend to convey the opposite Irony forms the basis of sarcasm, and of humor.
Examples:
* "Gentlemen, youcan't fight in here! This is the War Room."
* "I'm aware of the irony of appearing on TV in order to decrypt it."
* "Math was my worst subject because I could never persuade the teacher that my answers were meant ironically."
* "It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, launder became a dirty word."
* "An ironic man, with his sly stillness, and ambuscading ways, more...