MOST IMPORTANT!!! ENGLISH! figures of speech.

• Friends as like ALANKAR in Hindi and Odia language, English language also has figures of speech.This makes the language very beautiful to listen and write.But the difficult task is how to use it properly.Let us know the easy method to remember it...

there are a large number of Figures of speech present in english,let us describe some important  FOS among them..
DEFINITION-

1.SMILE-            Comparison between 2 unlike things using "like" or "as", "She was acting LIKE a pig."

2. METAPHOR-
            Direct Comparison between 2 unlike things, "She was a pig."

3.ONOMETAOPOEIA-
             A word expressing a sound, "BOOM!!!"

4.PERSONIFICATION-
             Giving human (i think PERSONifcation to remember) or characteristics to something nonhuman, "the branches DANCED in the wind"

5.ALLITERATION-
             A series of words with the same beginning consonant sound, "She sells seashells on the sea shore."
6.SYNECDOCHE-
             Creating an image by using a part to represent a whole, "get your nose out of my business!!"
7.submerged METAPHOR-
             Indirect or implied comparison between two unlike things. This figure of speech usually uses a verb to make the implied comparison, "our lips zipped together..."
8.HYPERBOLE-
             Extreme exaggeration, "I've heard you say that a MILLION times before!"

9.OXYMORON-
              oxymoron is a  special form of antithesis,where by two contradictory qualities are predicted at once of the same thing.
     ex-so innocent arch, so cunningly simple.

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