Figures of Speech || Definition & Example || Ajay Shukla

Figures of Speech

A figures of speech is a departure from the ordinary form of expression or the ordinary course of ideas in order to produce a greater effect.

         There are only seven types of figures of speech in the syllabus of intermediate.

1.SIMILE

• In a simile, a comparison is made between two objects of different which at least one point in common.
• In a simile, words of comparison as, so, or like are used.

Example:-

1. She is as firm as a rock.
2. Life is like a dream.
3. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
4. She shall be sportive as the fawn.
5. I wandered lonely as a cloud.
6. Rana Pratap was like a lion.
7. She is lovely like a rose.

2.METAPHOR

A metaphor is an implied simile in which two things of different kind are used but words of comparison as, so, or like are not used.

Example:-

1. Life is a dream.
2. Life is but a walking shadow.
3. Hope is the poor man's bread.
4. Life is a tale told by an idiot.
5. A coral lip admires
6. The camel is the ship of desert.
7. He is the pillar of state.

3.PERSONIFICATION

Personification is a figure of speech in which lifeless objects and abstract ideas are thought of as living beings. (OR) By this figure of speech we give intelligence and personality to inanimate things.

Example:-

1. Love is blind.
2. Experience is the best teacher.
3. Anxiety is sitting on her face.
4. A lie has no legs.
5. Laughter holding both her sides
6. The moon veiled her face.
7. Opportunity knocks at the door but once.

 4.APOSTROPHE

An apostrophe is a direct address to a death, to an absence, or two a personified object or idea

Example:-

1. O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts.
2. O Julius Caesar! thou art mighty yet.
3. O Solitude! where are thy charms.
4. O captain! my captain! our fearful trip is done.
5. Life! I know not what thou art.
6. Frailty, thy name is woman!
7. O death! where is thy sting?

5.HYPERBOLE

By this figure of speech, things are represented as greater or less, better or worse than they actually are.

Example:-

1. Ten thousand I saw at a glance.
2. Rivers of blood flowed in the battle.
3. Their chief was mountain high.
4. She wept ocean of tears.
5. The waves rose mountain high.
6. I have not seem him ages.
7. Belinda smiled and all the world was gay.

6.OXYMORON

In this figure of speech, contradictory properties are inferred at once on the same thing. (OR) It is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are put together.

Example:-

1. It is an open secret.
2. Love gives a pleasing pain.
3. Life is bitter sweet.
4. He is regularly irregular.
5. Fair is foul and foul is fair.
6. And having nothing, he hath all.
7. He is an innocent criminal.

7.ONOMATOPOEIA

It is the figure of speech in which the sound of the word suggests its meaning.

Example:-

1. Shall pass into her face.
2. Grunt grunt goes the hog.
3. And beauty born on murmuring sound.
4. Swords clanged and guns boomed.
5. I heard water lapping on the crag.
6. The guns of hunters snap and crack.
7. I babble on the pebbles.

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