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figure of speech

 

Figure of speech

It’s a type  of figurative language  that departs from conventional word order or meaning.common figures  of speech are similies, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and onomatopoeia, pun and alliteration.

Now we shall discuss all these figures of speech in detail

Simile

When two unlike things are compared such figure of speech is called simile

The clouds looks like cotton ball.

The sun look like a fire ball.

The edge of shovel is look like a knife.

Metaphor

Metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an action or object that is not literally true

Baby you are firework

Ali is a lion

He is a honey

Love is a battlefield.

Personification

In personification human traits are given to animals or non living things

Examples

The trees danced in the wind

The moon smiled happily on us

Hyperbole

Hyperbole is a literally device used to draw emphasis through  extreme exaggeration.

I am so hungry  I could eat a grass.

I have seen this movie a hundred times

Onomatopeia

Onomatopeia is literary device that uses the letter sound for word to intiate the  natural sound emitted from an object or action

 

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