Figure Of Speech
A figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it
Types of Figure of speech
1. Simile
Is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word "like" or "as".
2. Metaphor
Is a figure of speech concisely comparing two things, saying that one is the other.
3. Personification
Is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.
A description of an inanimate object as being a living person or animal as in.
An outstanding example of a quality or idea.
4. Trope
Is a way of turning a word away from its normal meaning, or turning it into something else.
5. Hyperbole
Is a figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally.
6. Synecdoche
It is a figure of speech in which a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing or a term denoting a thing (a "whole") is used to refer to part of it.
7. Onomatopoeia
Is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.
8. Irony
It is a situation, literary or rhetorical device, in which there is an incongruity, discordance or unintended connection that goes beyond the most evident meaning.
It is a disparity of expression and intention or when a literal meaning is contrary to its intended effect. Use of word in a way that conveys a meaning opposite to its usual meaning.
9. Transferred epithet
It is the trope or rhetorical device in which a modifier, usually an adjective, is applied to the "wrong" word in the sentence. The word whose modifier is thus displaced can either be actually present in the sentence, or it can be implied logically. The effect often stresses the emotions or feelings of the individual by expanding them on to the environment.
10. Metonymy
It Is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
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Alliteration
1. “You’ll never put a better bit of butter on your knife.”
2. “Good men are gruff and grumpy, cranky, crabbed, and cross.”
3. “A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow.”
4. “5A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!”
“The soul selects her own society.”
5. “The Gramercy Gym is two flights up some littered, lightless stairs that look like a mugger’s paradise, though undoubtedly they are the safest stairs in New York.”
6. “[S]he had no room for gaiety and ease. She had spent the golden time in grudging its going.”
7. “Forget the most obvious problem with collegiate calorie counting, that studying Kierkegaard or Conrad after a dinner of seitan and soy chips would render even robust stomachs seasick, sometimes outright ill. And I won’t harp on the clear link between vigorous salad consumption and sulkiness.”
8. “I watched the bare brown back of the prisoner marching in front of me.”
9. “The verdict last week on Karen Matthews and her vile accomplice is also a verdict on our broken society.
10. “The sibilant sermons of the snake as she discoursed upon the disposition of my sinner’s soul seemed ceaseless.”
11. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
12. “The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.”
13. “Pompey Pipped at the Post as Pippo Pounces”
14. “Up the aisle, the moans and screams merged with the sickening smell of woolen black clothes worn in summer weather and green leaves wilting over yellow flowers.”
15. “My style is public negotiations for parity, rather than private negotiations for position.”
16. “Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed.”
17. The sweet smell of success makes everyone happy.
18. And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.
19. Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings.
20. Leader beloved, and long he ruled In fame with all folk since his father had gone . .
21. . A man to match the mountains and the sea
22. The friendly welcome of the wayside well gives everyone a smile.
23. Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table.
24. She was waiting for warren when she heard the footsteps
25. For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ ” Chuck him out, the brute!
26. He is the “Savior of ‘is country” when his guns begins to shoot.
27. Marry might make her menstrual cycle more painful.
28. My mouth makes moo sounds.
29. Mom might make us more meals.
30. Max made me listen to Metal music.
31. Behemoth the biggest bom of earth, upphaved his vastness.
32. Cunningly, ceping, a spectral stalker
33. Hot-hearted beowolf was sent to battle
34. He had often haunted Hrothgar’s house
35. How glutted with gore he would guzzle his fill.
36. She sell sea shell by the seashore.
37. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
;
38. Betty Botter bought some butter,but, she said, the butter’s bitter
39. She bought a bit of butterbetter than her bitter butter.
40. Three grey geese in a green field grazing
41. Aaron’s ape ate Ace’s acorn
42. Baby Bobby bed bounced better by bedtime before Billy bounced
43. Cory collected cola cans counting continuously.
44. A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to flute.
45. Iily lee listen to the lessons of her cute and cuddly teacher
46. these fleas flew, becaused the freezy breeze blew.
47. I stopped the sound of feet
When I heard the loud boom of a car
48. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
49. Fred found forty frogs
50. Those tidal thoroughbreds that tango through the turquoise tide.
51. Their taut tails thrashing they twist in tribute
to the titans.
52. They twirl through the trektumbling towards the tide .
53. Throwing themselves towards those theatrical thespian
54. Tim talked to tony till twelve this twilight
55. georgina gave george.”
gigantic green grass
56. Don’t dream it. Drive it
57. The doral difference was discovered by Dorothy.
58. Fabio bought a functional and fasionable bag.
59. beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
60. I had to hurry home because grandma wanted her waffles
61. The big bad bear attacked all the little bunnies in the forest.
62. Come and clean your closet.
63. Go and gather the green leaves in the lawn
64. Please put your pen away and play thepiano.
65. Tell the teacher to teach you alliteration.
66. Shut the shutter before it makes youshudder.
67. Round and round she ran until she realized she was running round and round.
68. Four friends fought for the candy.
69. Out with the only open tin of tuna.
70. scary shelly slid open her slide door
71. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran,
72. Little leaky lousy leeches.
73. Don’t delay dawns disarming display
74. Careless cars cutting corners create confusion .
75. Wise words wait,while whiskey with waterwill whet
76. Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August
77. Becky’s beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy.
78. Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.
79. Dan’s dog dove deep in the dam, drinking dirty water as he dove.
80. Eric’s eagle eats eggs, enjoying each episode of eating.
81. Fred’s friends fried Fritos for Friday’s food.
82. Garry’s giraffe gobbled gooseberry’s greedily, getting good at grabbing goodies.
83. Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.
84. Isaacs ice cream is interesting and Isaac is imbibing it.
85. Jesse’s jaguar is jumping and jiggling jauntily.
86. Kim’s kid’s kept kiting
87. Larry’s lizard likes leaping leopards
88. Mike’s microphone made much music
89. Nick’s nephew needed new notebooks now not never
90. Orson’s owl out-performed ostriches
91. Peter’s piglet pranced priggishly
92. Quincy’s quilters quit quilting quickly
93. Ralph’s reindeer rose rapidly and ran round the room
94. Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand
95. Tim’s took tons of tools to make toys for tots.
96. Uncle Uris’ united union uses umbrella’s
97. Vivien’s very vixen-like and vexing
98. Walter walked wearily while wondering where Wally was
99. Xavier’s x-rayed his xylophone.
100. Yarvis yanked you at yoga, and Yvonne yelled.
Proverbs
1. A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept
2. A bad excuse is better than none
3. A bad penny always turns up
4. A bad workman blames his tools
5. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it
6. back the minute it begins to rain
7. A barking dog never bites
8. A best friend is like a four leaf clover, Hard to find and lucky to have
9. A bird can sing with a broken wing, but you cant pluck feathers off a frog
10. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
11. A black plum is as sweet as a white
12. A book holds a house of gold
13. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket
14. A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it
15. A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor
16. A camel is a horse designed by a committee
17. A cat has nine lives
18. A cat may look at a king
19. A cat may look at a Queen
20. A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears
21. dark glasses to avoid being recognized
22. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link
23. A change is as good as a rest
24. A child is a person who can dismantle in 5 minutes the toy it took you 5 hours to put
25. together
26. A cold bitter Christmas, a fat churchyard
27. A constant guest is never welcome
28. A creaking door hangs longest
29. A crowd is not company
30. A danger foreseen is half avoided
31. A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy
32. A Deaf Husband and a Blind Wife are Always a Happy Couple
33. A diamond among men
34. A dog who attends a flea circus most likely will steal the whole show
35. A drop of ink may make a million think
36. A drowning man will clutch at straws
37. A fair exchange is no robbery
38. A faithful friend is a medicine for life
39. A fly will not get into a closed mouth
40. A fool and his money are soon parted
41. A fool at forty is a fool indeed
42. A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions
43. A fool gives; a wise man takes
44. A Fool May Give a Wise Man Counsel
45. A fool will laugh when he is drowning
46. A friend in need is a friend indeed
47. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost
48. A friend to all is a friend to none
49. A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread
50. A gentleman without an estate is a pudding without suet
51. A gift given in secret soothes anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great
wrath
52. A golden key opens all doors
53. A good beginning makes a good ending
54. Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred
55. Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse
56. Better an open enemy, than a false friend
57. Better bend than break
58. Better die with honor than live with shame
59. Better do it than wish it done
60. Better late than never
61. Better one house spoiled than two
62. Better safe than sorry
63. Better to aim high and miss, than to aim low and reach target!
64. Better to be alone than in bad company
65. Better to be envied than pitied
66. Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the
proud
67. Better to be safe than sorry
68. Better to have loved and lost, than never have loved at all
69. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
70. Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife
71. Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly
72. Better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
73. Better wed over the mixen than over the moor
74. Confession is good for the soul
75. Confidence is a plant of slow growth
76. Constant dripping wears away the stone
77. Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned
78. Count your blessings
79. Cultivate money and you grow rich, Cultivate mind and you raise culture
80. Curiosity killed the cat
81. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost
82. Cut your coat according to your cloth
83. Daddies know best
84. Danger can never be overcome without taking risks
85. Dead men tell no tales
86. Death is the great leveler
87. Death pays all debts
88. Desperate Diseases Call for Desperate Remedies
89. Diamonds cut diamonds
90. Different strokes for different folk
91. Diligence is the mother of good fortune
92. Discretion is the better part of valour
93. Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow
94. Distance lends enchantment to the view
95. Distance makes the heart grow fonder
96. Do as I say, and not as I do
97. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped
98. Do right and fear no man
99. Do not praise yourself while going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle
100.
You shouldn’t be picky and choosy about gifts you recieve, you should be thankfull and take them as they are given to you.
Alliteration
1. “You’ll never put a better bit of butter on your knife.”
2. “Good men are gruff and grumpy, cranky, crabbed, and cross.”
3. “A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow.”
4. “5A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!”
“The soul selects her own society.”
5. “The Gramercy Gym is two flights up some littered, lightless stairs that look like a mugger’s paradise, though undoubtedly they are the safest stairs in New York.”
6. “[S]he had no room for gaiety and ease. She had spent the golden time in grudging its going.”
7. “Forget the most obvious problem with collegiate calorie counting, that studying Kierkegaard or Conrad after a dinner of seitan and soy chips would render even robust stomachs seasick, sometimes outright ill. And I won’t harp on the clear link between vigorous salad consumption and sulkiness.”
8. “I watched the bare brown back of the prisoner marching in front of me.”
9. “The verdict last week on Karen Matthews and her vile accomplice is also a verdict on our broken society.
10. “The sibilant sermons of the snake as she discoursed upon the disposition of my sinner’s soul seemed ceaseless.”
11. “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
12. “The wind had blown off, leaving a loud, bright night, with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.”
13. “Pompey Pipped at the Post as Pippo Pounces”
14. “Up the aisle, the moans and screams merged with the sickening smell of woolen black clothes worn in summer weather and green leaves wilting over yellow flowers.”
15. “My style is public negotiations for parity, rather than private negotiations for position.”
16. “Lay, lady, lay, lay across my big brass bed.”
17. The sweet smell of success makes everyone happy.
18. And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind.
19. Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings.
20. Leader beloved, and long he ruled In fame with all folk since his father had gone . .
21. . A man to match the mountains and the sea
22. The friendly welcome of the wayside well gives everyone a smile.
23. Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table.
24. She was waiting for warren when she heard the footsteps
25. For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ ” Chuck him out, the brute!
26. He is the “Savior of ‘is country” when his guns begins to shoot.
27. Marry might make her menstrual cycle more painful.
28. My mouth makes moo sounds.
29. Mom might make us more meals.
30. Max made me listen to Metal music.
31. Behemoth the biggest bom of earth, upphaved his vastness.
32. Cunningly, ceping, a spectral stalker
33. Hot-hearted beowolf was sent to battle
34. He had often haunted Hrothgar’s house
35. How glutted with gore he would guzzle his fill.
36. She sell sea shell by the seashore.
37. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop.
;
38. Betty Botter bought some butter,but, she said, the butter’s bitter
39. She bought a bit of butterbetter than her bitter butter.
40. Three grey geese in a green field grazing
41. Aaron’s ape ate Ace’s acorn
42. Baby Bobby bed bounced better by bedtime before Billy bounced
43. Cory collected cola cans counting continuously.
44. A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to flute.
45. Iily lee listen to the lessons of her cute and cuddly teacher
46. these fleas flew, becaused the freezy breeze blew.
47. I stopped the sound of feet
When I heard the loud boom of a car
48. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
49. Fred found forty frogs
50. Those tidal thoroughbreds that tango through the turquoise tide.
ThIs is my favorite figure of speech
1. Their taut tails thrashing they twist in tribute
to the titans.
2. They twirl through the trektumbling towards the tide .
3. Throwing themselves towards those theatrical thespian
4. Tim talked to tony till twelve this twilight
5. georgina gave george.”
gigantic green grass
6. Don’t dream it. Drive it
7. The doral difference was discovered by Dorothy.
8. Fabio bought a functional and fasionable bag.
9. beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
10. I had to hurry home because grandma wanted her waffles
11. The big bad bear attacked all the little bunnies in the forest.
12. Come and clean your closet.
13. Go and gather the green leaves in the lawn
14. Please put your pen away and play thepiano.
15. Tell the teacher to teach you alliteration.
16. Shut the shutter before it makes youshudder.
17. Round and round she ran until she realized she was running round and round.
18. Four friends fought for the candy.
19. Out with the only open tin of tuna.
20. scary shelly slid open her slide door
21. Round and round the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran,
22. Little leaky lousy leeches.
23. Don’t delay dawns disarming display
24. Careless cars cutting corners create confusion .
25. Wise words wait,while whiskey with waterwill whet
26. Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August
27. Becky’s beagle barked and bayed, becoming bothersome for Billy.
28. Carries cat clawed her couch, creating chaos.
29. Dan’s dog dove deep in the dam, drinking dirty water as he dove.
30. Eric’s eagle eats eggs, enjoying each episode of eating.
31. Fred’s friends fried Fritos for Friday’s food.
32. Garry’s giraffe gobbled gooseberry’s greedily, getting good at grabbing goodies.
33. Hannah’s home has heat hopefully.
34. Isaacs ice cream is interesting and Isaac is imbibing it.
35. Jesse’s jaguar is jumping and jiggling jauntily.
36. Kim’s kid’s kept kiting
37. Larry’s lizard likes leaping leopards
38. Mike’s microphone made much music
39. Nick’s nephew needed new notebooks now not never
40. Orson’s owl out-performed ostriches
41. Peter’s piglet pranced priggishly
42. Quincy’s quilters quit quilting quickly
43. Ralph’s reindeer rose rapidly and ran round the room
44. Sara’s seven sisters slept soundly in sand
45. Tim’s took tons of tools to make toys for tots.
46. Uncle Uris’ united union uses umbrella’s
47. Vivien’s very vixen-like and vexing
48. Walter walked wearily while wondering where Wally was
49. Xavier’s x-rayed his xylophone.
50. Yarvis yanked you at yoga, and Yvonne yelled.
This is my second most favorite
Proverbs!!!!!
1. A bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept
2. A bad excuse is better than none
3. A bad penny always turns up
4. A bad workman blames his tools
5. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it
6. back the minute it begins to rain
7. A barking dog never bites
8. A best friend is like a four leaf clover, Hard to find and lucky to have
9. A bird can sing with a broken wing, but you cant pluck feathers off a frog
10. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
11. A black plum is as sweet as a white
12. A book holds a house of gold
13. A book is like a garden carried in the pocket
14. A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it
15. A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor
16. A camel is a horse designed by a committee
17. A cat has nine lives
18. A cat may look at a king
19. A cat may look at a Queen
20. A celebrity is someone who works hard all his life to become known and then wears
21. dark glasses to avoid being recognized
22. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link
23. A change is as good as a rest
24. A child is a person who can dismantle in 5 minutes the toy it took you 5 hours to put
25. together
26. A cold bitter Christmas, a fat churchyard
27. A constant guest is never welcome
28. A creaking door hangs longest
29. A crowd is not company
30. A danger foreseen is half avoided
1. A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy
2. A Deaf Husband and a Blind Wife are Always a Happy Couple
3. A diamond among men
4. A dog who attends a flea circus most likely will steal the whole show
5. A drop of ink may make a million think
6. A drowning man will clutch at straws
7. A fair exchange is no robbery
8. A faithful friend is a medicine for life
9. A fly will not get into a closed mouth
10. A fool and his money are soon parted
11. A fool at forty is a fool indeed
12. A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions
13. A fool gives; a wise man takes
14. A Fool May Give a Wise Man Counsel
15. A fool will laugh when he is drowning
16. A friend in need is a friend indeed
17. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost
18. A friend to all is a friend to none
19. A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread
20. A gentleman without an estate is a pudding without suet
21. A gift given in secret soothes anger, and a bribe concealed in the cloak pacifies great
wrath
22. A golden key opens all doors
23. A good beginning makes a good ending
24. Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred
25. Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse
26. Better an open enemy, than a false friend
27. Better bend than break
28. Better die with honor than live with shame
29. Better do it than wish it done
30. Better late than never
31. Better one house spoiled than two
32. Better safe than sorry
33. Better to aim high and miss, than to aim low and reach target!
34. Better to be alone than in bad company
35. Better to be envied than pitied
36. Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the
proud
37. Better to be safe than sorry
38. Better to have loved and lost, than never have loved at all
39. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
40. Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife
41. Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly
42. Better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
43. Better wed over the mixen than over the moor
44. Confession is good for the soul
45. Confidence is a plant of slow growth
46. Constant dripping wears away the stone
47. Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned
48. Count your blessings
49. Cultivate money and you grow rich, Cultivate mind and you raise culture
50. Curiosity killed the cat
51. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost
52. Cut your coat according to your cloth
53. Daddies know best
54. Danger can never be overcome without taking risks
55. Dead men tell no tales
56. Death is the great leveler
57. Death pays all debts
58. Desperate Diseases Call for Desperate Remedies
59. Diamonds cut diamonds
60. Different strokes for different folk
61. Diligence is the mother of good fortune
62. Discretion is the better part of valour
63. Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow
64. Distance lends enchantment to the view
65. Distance makes the heart grow fonder
66. Do as I say, and not as I do
67. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped
68. Do right and fear no man
69. Do not praise yourself while going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle
70.
You shouldn’t be picky and choosy about gifts you recieve, you should be thankfull and take them as they are given to you.