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Figures of speech - Coggle Diagram
Figures of speech
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Anaphora
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"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."
Antithesis
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"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."
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Hyperbole
The use of a extravagant statement/exaggerated terms in an expression for the purpose of emphasis. Example: “I will die of embarassement”
Chiasmus
A verbal pattern that balances the first part of the expression by reversing it and adding it to the end of the expression. Example: “people should live to eat, not eat to live”
Irony
The use of words to convey the opposite of the literal meaning. Example: “Oh, I love spending money!” Said my dad, a penny pincher.
Understatment
The representation os something being smaller, worse or less important than it actually is. (You just had to work a double shift "I just need to rest my eyes for a minute)
Metaphor
Comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common. Example: Shawn has a heart of gold
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Pun
Different meanings of a word (The tallest building in town is the library- it has thousands os stories)
Personification
A figure os speech in which an idea or a thing is given human attributes (Rita heard the last pice of pie calling her name)
Simile
A comparison on thing that have some qualities in common using "like" or "as"
(They fought like cats and dogs)
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Metonymy
Is when a a phrase or word is substituted for another which is closely associated. Example: "Money just walked in" ( a rich person has entered the room)
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Euphemism
The substitution of terms (one inoffensive for another offensively explicit) into an expression. Example: “He passed away last week”
Litotes
A figure of speech. Consist in expressing an affirmative by negating it's opposite. Example: “A million dollars is no small chunk of change”
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