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Figure Of Speech :
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| Figure Of Speech |
A figure of speech is an expression which is uncommon and deviates greater effect. The famous figure of speech are discussed below.
Simile :
It is a figure of speech in which a compari -son is made between two objects of different kinds which have at least one point in common. It is generally indicated by such words as ‘like’, ‘as’, ‘such as’, ‘ just as’ and ‘so on’
Examples—
1. Life is like a dream.
2. She is lovely like a rose.
3. I wandered lonely as a cloud.
4. My love is like a red, red rose.
5. She is as firm as a rock.
6. Expanding like the petals of young flowers. I watch the gentle opening of your minds.
7. Look like the innocent flower.
8. She hangs like a star in the dew of our song.
9. The city's voice itself is soft like solitude's
10. As shines the moon in clouded skies, she in her poor attire was seen.
Metaphor :
A Metaphor is an implied simile or an implied comparison. The likeness is embodied in a single word and that word fuses the identity of both into one. I metaphor, words of comparison as ‘like’, ’as’, ‘just as’. etc are not used.
Example—
1. Life is but a walking shadow.
2. Life is a dream.
3. I see a lily on thy brow.
4. Whose amour is his honest thought.
5. Love is the spice of life.
6. The camel is the ship of the desert.
7. She is a fen of stagnant waters.
8. Revenge is a Kind of wild justice.
9. Hope is the poor man's bread.
10. Life is a tale told by an idiot.
11. He is the star of the family.
12. The lion is the King of the forest.
13. Kalidas is the shakespeare of India.
Personification :
Personification is a figure of speech by which we attribute life and mind to inanimate things. Here, lifeless objects or abstract ideas are treated as if they were human beings. A very common example of Personification is ‘Love is blind’. Here love has been seen as in living human being who is blind an so can not see the decipher what is right and what is worng. The personified object is written in a capital letter.
Or
"In personification (inanimate) objects and abstract notions are spoken of as having life and intelligence".
Example—
1. Death lays his icy hands on kings.
2. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil.
3. Authority forgets a dying King.
4. The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon.
5. But Patience, to prevent that murmur, soon replies.
6. Anxiety is sitting on her face.
7. Exprience is the best teacher.
8. Jealousy is a green-.eyed monster.
9. Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
10. Love is blind.
11. Opportuniy Knocks at the door but once.
Apostrophe :
It is a figure of speech whose force lies in, addressing a dead person. an animal, a thing or abstract quality or idea as if were alive, present and capable of understanding.
Example—
1. O Death! where is my sting ?
2. O Julius Caesar! thou art mightly yet.
3. Frailty, thy name is woman.
4. O Grave! where is thy victory ?
5. O Solitude! Where are thy charms, that sages have seen in thy face.
6. Milton! thou should'st be living at the hour.
7. Life! I know not what thou art.
8. O sweet conten! where is my mild abode?
9. O Judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts.
10. O World ! O Life! Oh Time! on whose step I climb.
Oxymoron :
It is an association of two words or phrases having opposite meanings.
Examples—
1. She is feeling sweet pain of love.
2. This is an open secret.
3. He is the wisest fool in the group.
4. He is idly busy these days.
5. Love is bitter sweet.
6. Having nothing, he hath all.
7. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.
8. Her mother, too upon this Occasion, felt a pleasing distress.
9. The marthaste, the less speed.
10. His honour rooted in dishonour stood. And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
11. Mohan is regularly irregular.
12. She is my sweetest enémy.
13. He is an innocent criminal.
I4. Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all.
Hyperbola :
It is a figure of speed of exaggeration or overstatement in order to lay high emphasis on the statement. In hyperbola, things are represented as greater or less, better or worse than they really are.
Example—
1. She wept an Ocean of tears.
2. Rivers of blood flowed in the battlefield,
3. Ten thousand saw I at a glance.
4. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this liltte hand.
5. Belinda smiled and all the world was gay.
6. They build the nation's pillars.
7. And out of joy ‘His hearts’ jumped miles high.
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Onomatopaeia :
Onomatopoeia is the employment of words that initiate or suggest the sound or echo the sense. Here sound effect is the most important factor. The words, by their very sound, suggest the sense or the meaning of those words.
Examples—
1. A murmuring whisper through the nunnery ran.
2. I heard the water lapping on the crag. And the long ripples washing through the reeds.
3. I Chatter, Chatter as I flow. To Join the brimming river.
4. Swords clanged and guns boomed.
5. The door opened with a bang.
6. I babble on the pebbles.
7. The snakes are hissing and the bees are buzzing.
8. The beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into her face.
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