FIGURES OF SPEECH

It is used within poems, stories & novels to help bring emotion, meaning, and imagination to the

reader.

Simile

A comparison using the words like or as.

Metaphor

A comparison which does not use the words like or as.

Personification

An embodiment or representation of an

object as having life or human attribute.

Hyperbole or Exaggeration

Over stating a statement or

situation.

Metonym

Naming of a thing by its symbolic

attribute.

Synecdoche

A part is put for a whole or a whole for

a part.

Litotes

An assertion is made by means of negation

or understatement.

Antithesis

The balancing of contrasted words or ideas against each

other.

Irony or Sarcasm

To signify the opposite of what is

usually express.

Epigram

Contrasting of words or ideas in a sentence

in a way of provoking.

Rhetorical Question

A question that doesn’t waits for an

answer.

Transferred Epithets

Use to express some characteristics

attributes or quality.

Euphemism

A mild or agreeable expression substituted for

realistic description of something disagreeable.

Allusion

Consisting of a passing, but significant reference to a well-known person,

place or event.

Onomatopoeia

Words that sound like their meaning.

Imitative word.

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