![All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances[...]
—William Shakespeare, As You Like It](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/figuresofspeechpart1-200913103502/85/Figures-of-Speech-Part-1-6-320.jpg)
Figures of Speech- Part 1
- 2. FIGURES OF SPEECH A figure of speech is a word or phrase that has a meaning something different than its literal meaning. •It is non literal in sense •It evokes a thought or an idea •It stimulates our imagination •It creates a mental picture
- 3. •Those based on resemblance •Simile •Metaphor •Personification •Apostrophe •Allegory •Fable •Parable •Those based on Contrast: •Antithesis •Epigram •Paradox •Oxymoron •Irony •Satire •Hyperbole •Litotes •Euphemism •Pun •Those based on Association: •Metonymy •Synecdoche •Those depending on Construction or Arrangement •Climax •Anticlimax •Bathos •Alliteration •Repetition •Anaphora •Anastrophe The figures of speech may be classified under:
- 5. A metaphor is an implied simile. It does not, like the simile, state that one thing is like another or acts as another, but takes that for granted and proceeds as if the two things were one. . Eg: The camel is the ship of the desert
- 6. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances[...] —William Shakespeare, As You Like It
- 7. Note: Every simile can be compressed into a metaphor and every metaphor can be expanded into a simile. Thus, instead of saying: Akash fought like a lion. (Simile) we can say, Akash was a lion in the fight. (Metaphor)
- 11. The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for attributing human emotions and traits to inanimate objects of nature. It is a kind of personification that is found in poetic writing when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent PATHETIC FALLACY
- 18. Allegory is a form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons and actions that have meaning outside the narrative. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious or political significance. The story has a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. ALLEGORY
- 23. O where are you going?" said reader to rider, "That valley is fatal when furnaces burn, Yonder's the midden whose odors will madden, That gap is the grave where the tall return." "O do you imagine," said fearer to farer, "That dusk will delay on your path to the pass, Your diligent looking discover the lacking Your footsteps feel from granite to grass?" "O what was that bird," said horror to hearer, "Did you see that shape in the twisted trees? Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease?" "Out of this house" ‚ said rider to reader, "Yours never will" ‚ said farer to fearer, "They're looking for you" ‚ said hearer to horror, As he left them there, as he left them there. WH Auden Repetition of consonants but with a distinct change in vowels
- 28. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It crack’d and growl’d, and roar’d and howl’d, Like noises in a swound!
- 30. Part I Ends Source: Google/Internet Images