FIGURES
OF SPEECH_Part 2
It is the effect
produced when similar vowel sounds chime together and where the final consonant
sound is also in agreement.
Example: “bat” and “cat”
Assonance
Example:
a. Be Glad Your Nose is in your face
“Not pasted on some other place”
“Were it attached atop your head”
Refrain
A line or two repeated twice or
more for the purpose of rhyming
Example:
a. Be Glad Your Nose is on your face
“Be Glad Your Nose is on your face
Not pasted on some other place”
Personification:
It
is a form of metaphor.
Inanimate
objects or abstractions are given human characteristics.
Example:
a.
A Psalm of Life
Art is long, and time
is fleeting.
b.
O Captain! My Captain!
“While follow eyes the
steady keel, the vessel grim and daring”
“Rise up- for you the
flag is flung- for you the bugle trills”
c.
Earth
“You are the mouth and
lips of eternity
The strings and
fingers of time”
d.
The Apology
“Each cloud that
floated in the sky”
e.
Manliness
“Impostors”
f.
Going for water
“With a laughter when
she found us soon.”
g.
The cry of the children
“O ye wheels
Stop! Be silent for today!”
Onomatopoeia:
எழுப்பும்
குரல்
காரணமாக
ஏற்பட்ட
பெயர்
It
is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
Example:
a.
O Captain! My Captain!
“Rise up- for you the
flag is flung- for you the bugle trills”
b.
Meow
(Cat), buzz, click, bang, crackle.
Oxymoron:
(முரண்தொடை)
எதிரிடையான கருத்தளிக்கும் சொற்கள் கொண்ட உருவணி.
It is a figure of speech
in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction Example:
a.
The Nation United (A noiseless, Patient spider)
Till the gossamer thread
you fling catch somewhere
b.
The
flying wonder
Cheep-cheep
c.
Hasten slowly
d.
faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.
e.
The deafening silence…
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