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12 figures of speech - Coggle Diagram
12 figures of speech
Metaphor
Sonnet 73: “This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, / To love that well … that thou must leave ere long”
Directly compares two unlike things by stating that one is the other, without using "like" or "as".
“All the world’s a stage.” — As You Like It, 2.7
Alliteration
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“Full fathom five thy father lies.” — The Tempest, 1.2
Oxymoron
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Romeo and Juliet, 1.1: “O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!”
Irony
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Julius Caesar, 3.2: Antony calling Brutus “an honorable man.”
Simile
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Directly compares two unlike things, often using the words "like" or "as" to draw the connection.
Romeo and Juliet, 1.3: "As gentle as a lamb.”
Pun
Sonnet 138: “When my love swears that she is made of truth, / I do believe her though I know she lies” — the repeated sense of “lie"
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Romeo and Juliet, 3.1: “You shall find me a grave man.”
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Assonance
Twelfth Night, 1.1: “So soft, what light through yonder window breaks?”
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Hyperbole
Sonnet 18: “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
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Macbeth, 5.1: “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
Allusion
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A reference to a famous person, place, event, or story
Hamlet, 1.2: “Like Niobe, all tears.”
Anaphora
In Othello 5.2: “It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul…”
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Othello, 5.2: "It is the cause, it is the cause…”
Onomatopoeia
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 5, Scene 1:
“I’ll roar that I will do any man’s heart good to hear me.”
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The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 2:
“The buzzing of the bees.”