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In the literary language words are an end in themselves, the author selects language to enrich the vocabulary skills of a language.

A "figure" in the broadest sense, any action or manipulation oflanguage for rhetorical purposes, formerly applied to oratory, but to get it passed decadent literature and is currently seen in greater emphasis on advertising.

So literary figures (also calledfigures of speech or literary) are resources of literary language used by the poet to give more beauty and better articulate their words, that is, the poet uses these resources to give greaterexpression to their intimate feelings and emotions, his inner world, but we must not forget that we can also find these figures in colloquial language: metaphors as studied as a lion, hyperbole and is heavierthan a cow in arms, as ironic expressions But what is this child friendly!, etc.

Another definition says that the rhetorical or stylistic devices of literary language consist of a deviation fromthe normal use of language in order to achieve a stylistic effect: repetition or repetition of elements, strengthening, beautification of the message, and so on.

Are characteristic of the poeticfunction of language and literary texts themselves both in prose and verse, most abundant in poetry. May also appear in other texts such as advertising language in some newspaper articles and in thecolloquial language. Their study has traditionally charged rhetoric or "art of speaking well, to beautify the expression of concepts, to give the written or spoken language effectively to delight, persuadeor move" (RAE)

Generally, we can say that the traditional rhetoric to literary figures called "a way of speaking with which prayer becomes more pleasant and persuasive, with no respect for therules of grammar." The figure is an ornament of style, a result of a desire to form by the writer.


Major literary or rhetorical

Following are the different literary or rhetorical figures in...