FIGURES OF SPEECH Flashcards
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What are fiqures of speech classified into?
Comparisons, Sound Devices and contradictons
What is a simile?
A direct comparison that always contains the words like or as
What is a metaphor?
A comparison without the use of like or as
What is personification?
Personification gives huan qualities to inanimate objects
Which classification do similies, metaphors and personifications belong to?
Comparisions
What is alliteration?
The repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds?
What is an Onomatopoeia?
An onomatopoeis uses words that imitate and reproduce real-life sounds
What is a rhyme?
A rhyme depends on sounds rather than the written word
What classisication does alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia and rhyme fall under?
Sound Devices
What is antithesis?
Antithesis compares and contracts ideas or statements within a statement
What is an Oxymoron?
An oxymoron places two seemily contradictory words nexts to each other
What is a paradox?
A paradox is a seemingly absurd or contractionary statemnt, which is found to be true
What is Irony?
Irony implies thhe opposite of what is said
What classification does antithesis, oxymoron, paradox and Irony fall under?
Contradictions
