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Figurative Devices - Coggle Diagram
Figurative Devices
Emotive Language
Language that evokes emotions, they could be positive or negative.
The main purpose of emotive language is to make the audience/reader respond in an
emotional way to the point. It can also be used to persuade the reader to agree with the point made
Example: An innocent bystander was murdered in cold blood. The words innocent, murdered, and in cold blood are the emotive language used
Personification
A figure of speech that describes an animal, an inanimate object, an idea, or a force of nature as if it were alive or had human traits or feelings.
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The purpose of this figurative language is to bring inanimate things to life to better explain them. Writers often use personification to make their writing more vivid and to have the reader understand the object or animal in a better way.
Allusion
Allusion is a figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance is referred to indirectly.
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Allusion allows a writer to compress a great deal of meaning and significance into a word or phrase.
Pathetic Fallacy
Pathetic Fallacy is when we take human feeling and emotions from a character in the story and place it into the environment.
Then what is the difference between pathetic fallacy and personification? We can say that pathetic fallacy falls under the personification umbrella as personification refers to any human attributes while pathetic fallacy refers to human emotions. Additionally personification allows any substance or non-living element to inherit these values however, for pathetic fallacy, its aspects in the atmosphere.
Pathetic Fallacy's purpose can be found in common literature and poetry to showcase and emphasis on the emotions a character goes through and setting the tone of a scene and setting.
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Onomatopoeia
words sound like the thing they describe. Sound effects like “tick-tock” and “ding-dong” are everyday examples, as well as words like “zap” and “hiccup.”
Onomatopoeia's sensory effect is used to create particularly vivid imagery it is as if you are in the text itself, hearing what the speaker of the poem is hearing.
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