Figure of Speech

Figure of Speech :



A FIGURE OF SPEECH (Rhetorical Figure as it is sometimes called) is a deviation from the ordinary use of words with a view to increasing their effect.

Thus we can say….There are six pillars to the verandah of this house.

Here the word PILLARS is used in its ordinary or literal sense.

Again, we can say….That man is a pillar of the state.

Here PILLAR is used in a figurative or non-literal sense and signifies SUPPORT.

Such a way of using the words or sentences or phrases in non-literal sense is called Figure of Speech. There are many such Figures of Speech.

Related Topics :

1. Simile
   
2. Metaphor
   
3. Parable
   
4. Allegory
   
5. Fable
   
6. Personification
   
7. Metonymy
   
8. Synecdoche
   
9. Transferred Epithets
   
10. Euphemism
    
11. Climax
    
12. Anticlimax
    
13. Bathos
    
14. Interrogation
    
15. Hyperbole
    
16. Exaggeration
    
17. Exclamation
    
18. Antithesis
    
19. Paradox
    
20. Epigram
    
21. Pun
    
22. Innuendo
    
23. Irony
    
24. Sarcasm
    
25. Litotes
    
26. Apostrophe
    
27. Alliteration
    
28. Onomatopoeia
    
29. Periphrasis
    
30. Circumlocution
    
31. Tautology
    
32. Pleonasm
    
33. Repetition
    
34. Figure of Speech - 2
    

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