14 Figures Of Speech In The Net
14 Figures of Speech
EN9/NCSHS
Figure of speech is intentional departure from straight-forward, literal use of language for the purpose of clarity, emphasis, or freshness of expression. In general or broadest sense, its purpose is to make expression more effective, more striking and more beautiful. One special effect of it is developing thinking skill for it indeliberately hides a true meaning presented in another form or figure.
While there are about 250 identified figures of speech, fourteen of them will be in focus in here. For better recognition of their uses and differences, they will be grouped as figures by tropes and figures by schemes.
The figures by tropes are artful deviation from the ordinary or principal signification or meaning of a word. The typical meaning of the word is presented in an unusual or “figured” way like comparing an insensitive person to a rock as in metaphor or naming the people as a nation as in synecdoche.
The kinds of tropes are:
1. Reference to one thing as another like simile, metaphor, hyperbole
2. Wordplay and pun
3. Substitution
4. Understatement/overstatement
5. Semantic inversion or language re-presentation
The figures by schemes are artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words in such a way that the positioning of the terms used tells something significant in an intended meaning to be exposed. For instance, the repetition of the word “love” or the phrase “by all means” carries with it a meaning that the statement offers.
The kinds of schemes are:
1. Structure of balance (the placement of ideas is balanced in a clause or sentence where a beginning idea is balanced with an idea at the end)
2. Repetition
3. Omission
How are the FOURTEEN grouped?
FIGURES BY TROPES
1. (wordplay/pun) ONOMATOPOEIA – use of words to imitate natural sounds; accommodation of sound to sense; words which suggest the sound of what they are describing ex. The ducks were quacking and the bees were buzzing. rip – cloth/paper tinkle –
EN9/NCSHS
Figure of speech is intentional departure from straight-forward, literal use of language for the purpose of clarity, emphasis, or freshness of expression. In general or broadest sense, its purpose is to make expression more effective, more striking and more beautiful. One special effect of it is developing thinking skill for it indeliberately hides a true meaning presented in another form or figure.
While there are about 250 identified figures of speech, fourteen of them will be in focus in here. For better recognition of their uses and differences, they will be grouped as figures by tropes and figures by schemes.
The figures by tropes are artful deviation from the ordinary or principal signification or meaning of a word. The typical meaning of the word is presented in an unusual or “figured” way like comparing an insensitive person to a rock as in metaphor or naming the people as a nation as in synecdoche.
The kinds of tropes are:
1. Reference to one thing as another like simile, metaphor, hyperbole
2. Wordplay and pun
3. Substitution
4. Understatement/overstatement
5. Semantic inversion or language re-presentation
The figures by schemes are artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words in such a way that the positioning of the terms used tells something significant in an intended meaning to be exposed. For instance, the repetition of the word “love” or the phrase “by all means” carries with it a meaning that the statement offers.
The kinds of schemes are:
1. Structure of balance (the placement of ideas is balanced in a clause or sentence where a beginning idea is balanced with an idea at the end)
2. Repetition
3. Omission
How are the FOURTEEN grouped?
FIGURES BY TROPES
1. (wordplay/pun) ONOMATOPOEIA – use of words to imitate natural sounds; accommodation of sound to sense; words which suggest the sound of what they are describing ex. The ducks were quacking and the bees were buzzing. rip – cloth/paper tinkle –