Sheet GCSE’S/ A Levels -Figures of speech

A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as.

Figure of speech that implies comparison between two unlike entities, it’ different than the first, because isn’t an explicit comparison. The distinction is not simple. This figure of speech makes a qualitative leap from a reasonable, perhaps prosaic, comparison to an identification or fusion of two objects, the intention being to create one new entity that partakes of the characteristics of both.

Concise compound or figurative phrase replacing a common noun, especially in Old Germanic, Old Norse, and Old English poetry. This figure of speech is commonly a simple stock compound such as “whale-path” or “swan road” for “sea,” “God’s beacon” for “sun,” or “ring-giver” for “king”.

Figure of speech, usually a simile or metaphor, that forms an extremely ingenious or fanciful parallel between apparently dissimilar or incongruous objects or situations.

In rhetoric, component of literary style in both prose and poetry, in which coordinate ideas are arranged in phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that balance one element with another of equal importance and similar wording. The repetition of sounds, meanings, and structures serves to order, emphasize, and point out relations.

It represents a thing or an idea in the guise of a person.

It is a process of symbolization which allows a concentration of the utterance. We do not name the being or the object but we use another name that is close to it because it is about its cause, its container, ... The two terms have a close relationship.

Figure close to the previous one: the words are linked by an inclusion relation: the part for the whole / the material for the object.

Attenuation of an idea or feeling in order to obscure its unpleasantness.

This figure of speech is an extravagant exaggeration.

To say the least to express the most.

It’s employed for rhetorical effect.

A figure of speech in which irreconcilable opposites or strongly contrasting ideas are placed in sharp juxtaposition and sustained tension.

Unsuccessful, and therefore ludicrous, attempt to portray pathos in art, i.e., to evoke pity, sympathy, or sorrow.

Apparently self-contradictory statement, the underlying meaning of which is revealed only by careful scrutiny.

A word or group of words that is self-contradicting and whip are glue.

In prosody, the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.

In prosody, the repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.

Repeating the same word several times.

The use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression; a roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking.

Linguistic and literary device, in spoken or written form, in which real meaning is concealed or contradicted.