FIGURES
OF SPEECH_Part 1
Alliteration:
It is the occurrence
of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected
words.
Example: Cool,
Calm and Collected
For the soul
is dead that slumbers. (A
Psalm of Life)
And the grave
is not its goal. (A Psalm
of Life)
Allusion:
Make
reference to another poem or text.
Example:
a.
A Psalm of Life
“Dust
thou art, to dust returnest” (Biblical reference)
“Tell me
not, in mournful
numbers.” (Biblical reference)
b.
English Words
“In
the end will be the word
And
the word will be God in the man”
c.
Snake
Sicilian
July and albatross (Reference from “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner” by S.T.Coleridge)
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Apostrophe:
இறந்துபோன,
உயிரற்ற
அல்லது
இல்லாத
ஒன்றை
விளித்துப்
பேசுதலான
ஓர்
அணி.
Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person,
an abstract idea, or a thing.
Example:
a.
O Captain! My Captain!
“O Captain! My Captain!”
b.
The Nation United (A noiseless, Patient spider)
“And you O my soul where you
stand”
“Till the gossamer
thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul”
Anaphora:
It is the repetition
of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.
Example:
a.
Life is real! Life is
earnest!
Ellipsis:
It is
the omission of words but without a loss of sense.
Simile:
It
is the comparison of one thing with another thing by employing either “like” or
“as”
Example:
a.
A Psalm of Life
And our hearts like
muffled drums are beating.
b.
Women’s Rights
As
humble plants by country hedgerows growing.
Metaphor:
It
is an imaginative comparison between two objects which it is not literally
applicable.
(**
No Usage of “like” or “as”)
Examples:
a.
A Psalm of Life
In the world broad
field of battle
In the bivouac of
life
In the above example,
World/ life is compared to battle field and life is compared to bivouac
(temporary camp)
b.
The Nation United (A noiseless, Patient spider)
Surrounded, detached, in
measureless oceans of space
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