Figure+of+Speech


 * Metaphor/Simile || Synecdoche and Metonymy ||
 * Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance || Oxymoron ||
 * Personification || Paradox ||
 * Onomatopoeia || Litotes ||
 * Hyperbole || Pun ||
 * Irony ||  ||

Metaphor & Simile
**Metaphor:** Comparision without using like or as Example: My love is a rose.

**Simile:** Comparison using like or as Example: My love is like a red rose.

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Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance
Repetition of initial sounds of words in a row.
 * Alliteration:**

Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

In Gerard Manley Hopkins's “Pied Beauty”:

Glory be to God for dappled things...Landscapes plotted and pieced—fold, fallow and plough;And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. The letter “g” is used in repetition in the first line, “p” and “f” in the second line, and “t” in the third line.

Repetition of internal vowel sounds of words close together in poetry.
 * Assonance:**

Example: I m__a__de my w__a__y to the l__a__ke. From Poe and Luis Stevenson (1) Hear the mellow wedding bells. (what vowel) Used by Robert Louis Stevenson: (2) The crumbling thunder of seas (what vowel?) Repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds of words close together in poetry.
 * Consonance:**

Example: I dropped the lo__ck__et in the thi__ck__ mud. "The Silken Tent" by Robert Frost as in guys she gently sways at ease

Personification
== **Definition:** The giving of human characters to other living creatures or things.

*These attributes may include sensations, emotions, desires, physical gestures, expressions, and powers of speech, among others.

EXAMPLE: a smiling moon, a jovial sun