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Figurative Language
Figurative Language
Figurative language, word or group of words used to give particular emphasis to an idea or sentiment. The special emphasis is typically accomplished by the user's conscious deviation from the strict literal sense of a word, or from the more commonly used form of word order or sentence construction. From ancient times to the present, such figurative locutions have been extensively employed by orators and writers to strengthen and embellish their styles of speech and composition.
Figures of Speech are expression used by a writer to tell something different from a literal meaning of a word or a group of word. Through this, you can express idea in a fresh and distinctive way

Examples of Figurative Language 1.
- is a sequence of ideas that abruptly diminish in dignity or importance at the end of a sentence or passage, generally for satirical effect.
ExAmple:
* Among the great achievements of Benito Mussolini's regime were the revival of a strong national consciousness, the expansion of the Italian Empire, and the running of the trains on time.

2.
- is a juxtaposition of two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences contrasted or opposed in meaning in such a way as to give emphasis to contrasting ideas.
ExAmple:
* To err is human, to forgive divine.

3.
- is a device by which an actor turns from the audience, or a writer from readers, to address a person who usually is either absent or deceased, an inanimate object, or an abstract idea. ExAmple: * Hail divinest Melancholy, whose saintly visage is too bright to hit the sense of human sight.

4.
- is a scheme type and often results when the verbs in supporting clauses are eliminated to produce shorter descriptive phrases. This makes them often hyperbatons, or figures of disorders because they can disrupt the flow of a sentence.

ExAmple: * Denver and Kid, both friends of mine, are starting a band.

5.
-is the refrain of vowel sounds to

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