1. Simile My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red‚ than her lips red: If snow be white‚ why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires‚ black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked‚ red and white‚ But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak‚ yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: I grant I never saw a goddess go‚ My
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Figurative Language is also called figures of speech. It changes the literal meaning of words • to express complexity‚ • to capture a physical or sensory effect‚ or • to extend meaning. There are a number of figures of speech. Some of the more common ones Simile Making a comparison between unlike things‚ using “like” or “as.” Forrest Gump’s famous simile is “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna Metaphor Making a comparison between unlike things without the use “like”
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Figure of Speech Examples A figure of speech is a word or phrase that has a meaning something different than its literal meaning. It can be ametaphor or simile that is designed to further explain a concept. Or‚ it can be a different way of pronouncing a word or phrase such as with alliteration to give further meaning or a different sound. Examples of Figures of Speech Using Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of beginning sounds. Examples are: Sally sells seashells. Walter wondered where
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protect the interests of group members. One celebrated example is the subculture of factory workers that was accidentally discovered by Elton Mayo and his associates in the 1930s. The research team visited the Hawthorne plant of the Western Electric Company to study the effects on productivity of variations in lighting. What the researchers found was that lighting had little to do with worker output. Instead‚ work group norms were found to be the strongest forces affecting the daily production levels
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FIGURES OF SPEECH: literary resources used to provide vividness‚ intensity and beauty to poetry and prose.” RESEMBLANCE METAPHOR: transfers attributes from one object to another‚ identifies. The bishop was a pillar of the church (pillar=strength : bishop= strength) He was a very serpent on my path (serpent= evil‚ danger: he=evil‚ danger) SIMILE: compares two things to clarify the meaning of one of them by using “as” or “like” to link them The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
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FIGURES OF SPEECH .Anaphora The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. (Contrast with epiphora and epistrophe.) "I needed a drink‚ I needed a lot of life insurance‚ I needed a vacation‚ I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat‚ a hat and a gun." (Raymond Chandler‚ Farewell‚ My Lovely‚ 1940) .Antithesis The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. "We notice things that don’t work. We don’t notice things that do
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ENGLISH ASIGNMENT TOPIC:- WRITE ABOUT FIGURE OF SPEECH AND TYPES OF SPEECH AND WRITE EXAMPLES ON EACH. NAME:- MUNIS A.P CLASS:- 7 B4 ROLL NO:- 28 ABOUT FIGURE OF SPEECH A figure of speech is a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways. Though there are hundreds of figures of speech‚ here we’ll focus on just 20 of the most common figures. You will probably remember many of these terms
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Factory farming speech. What really is factory farming. Well i am going to tell you about factory farming. First off we can all do something about this. How would u feel about thousands of animals crammed are being crammed into dirty‚ windowless sheds and confined to wire cages and gestation crates. They are basically forced into cannibalism because they scratch each other and peak because they are so hungry What sense would be affected first? Smell- horrible‚ rotten‚ death. The sound of
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Analogy An analogy is comparable to metaphor and simile in that it shows how two different things are similar‚ but it’s a bit more complex. Rather than a figure of speech‚ an analogy is more of a logical argument. The presenter of an analogy will often demonstrate how two things are alike by pointing out shared characteristics‚ with the goal of showing that if two things are similar in some ways‚ they are similar in other ways as well. Sometimes words and phrases can prove inept in conveying
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surrounding this sport Tone Ironic‚ sarcastic‚ informal‚ personal opinion‚ persuasive Vocabulary Use of words such as "boorish‚ boring‚ bearish" Words that create a negative tone: "obsessive‚ intolerant‚ violence‚ fanaticism" Figures of speech - "It can flirt with the darker side of the mob" - "Weaving itself into the culture of countries…" - ".. the media to feed off each other has been another ingredient in its survival" - "Gave gone hand in goalkeeper’s glove with each other"
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