June 25, 2017

Figures of Speech
By: Toni Christia Gaurana
10-Diamond

Adnomination- Repetition of words with the same root word

Alliteration- Is the repetition of the beginning sounds of

neighboring words

Anaphora- Is a technique where several phrases (or verses in a

poem) begin with the same word or words.

Antistrophe- Repetition of the same word or group of words in

a paragraph in the end of sentences

Apostrophe- Breaking off discourse to address some absent

person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or
a nonexistent character.

Assonance- Is the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are

close together.

Asyndeton- Omission of conjunctions between related clauses.

Antithesis- The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced
phrases.

Chiasmus- A verbal pattern in which the second half of an

expression is balanced against the first but with the parts
reversed.

Climax- Arrangement of words in order of descending to

ascending order.

Euphemism- Is a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a

harsh, blunt, or offensive term.

Enjambment- Incomplete sentences at the end of lines in

poetry

Homoioteleuton- Multiple words with the same ending.

Homeoteleuton- Words with the same ending.

Hyperbole- Uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect.

Irony- Is when there is a contrast between what is said and

what is meant, or between appearance and reality.
Litotes- A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in
which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.

Metaphor- Compares two unlike things or ideas.

Metonymy- A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is

substituted for another with which it's closely associated; also,
the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by
referring to things around it.

Onomatopoeia- Is a word that sounds like what it is describing.

Oxymoron- is two contradictory terms used together.

Paradox- A statement that appears to contradict itself.

Parallelism- The use of similar structures in two or more

clauses

Personification- is giving human qualities to non-living things

or ideas.

Pun- a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the

same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of
different words.
Simile- is a comparison between two unlike things using the
words "like" or "as."

Synecdoche- is when a part represents the whole or the whole

is represented by a part.

Understatement- is when something is said to make something

appear less important or less serious.