FIGURES OF SPEECH

1. Metaphor
She is a goddess.
The goddess looked at me when I entered the classroom. There is no
indication toward what we understand by that. Derived it from your
knowledge of the world.
2. Simile
She paces like a goddess. (Horace)
Comparison
She paces as if she were a tiger.
Or as though
3. Personification
It is something not human as if it were a human.
The sun looks angry today.
Prosopopeya en espaol-ver si es lo mismo
Onomatopoeia
Bang, boom
To convey
Imitating the sound conveyed or transmitted by the word or phrase.
1. 1.1Make (an idea, impression, or feeling) known or understandable.
the real virtues and diversity of America had never been conveyed in the
movies
[with clause] it's impossible to convey how lost I felt
More example sentences
Synonyms
2. 1.2Communicate (a message or information)
Mr Harvey and his daughter have asked me to convey their very kind
regards

3. Metonymy
Using a strongly related word (rather than the right word)
Genova has denied his accusations of corruption. EL PP
Washington meaning US government

4. Synecdocque
Viking keels were ploughing the seas in the 8 th century.
Ploughing -cruzar
Synaesthesia
Loud trousers
Colour- loud colour, eye catching
Combining five senses hearing, sight, touch, smell, taste
Dorian Gray see
The first paragraph we have the scent, perfume of flowers. Expressions
are ossified. (other type is creative)
Innumerable cigarettes- hyperbole- is intentional exaggeration,
exaggeration
Gleam- bright light
Catch the gleam- it is ossified, you cannot catch the light
Burden of a beauty- metaphor
Tremulous
Flame-like- in flames
Poem- words that have intense language, writing with rhyme
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Words and subtle music

Poetry- waste of paper

Anglo-Saxon poetry (449-1066)
Poetry is alliterative
Secuence of repeated initial sounds usually before stressed syllabels.
Alexander Pope, Essay on criticism, 1711
Pentameter it is the most common see where, imitation of French
You dont count the syllable you count the stress
COUPTET
Couplet noun
two lines of poetry next to each other, especially ones that rhyme (=
have words with the same sounds) and have the
same length andrhythm:
a rhyming couplet
NO ACCENT, ACCENT, NO ACCENT, ACCENT

ALLITERATION
To bear the burden of a beauty- its a kind of prose aliteration
Sullen burden of the bees-bees cannto be sullen personification
Shouldering- persoanification
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5. Repetitions
(contrast, parallelism)
SoundFlight fleeted
Syntax syntactical repetition
Lexical words or terms
Bear the burden of a beauty
Alliteration repetition of the consonant in the first part of the words, it
gives a more poetical tone to the passage of the narration, description.
Symbolism- images that cause emotions and they are mysterious- both the
images and also sometimes the emotions.
Dubliners- the Sisters- night, night, night, repetition