Learning English Grammar

FIGURE OF SPEECH ⬇

FIGURE OF SPEECH
- is a rhetorical device that achieves a special effect by using words in distinctive ways

- not really true

Using of figure of speech

- describe things in a creative way

- express their feelings

- helps readers to picture out and understand the text

-  make imaginative connections

- share their experiences using words that appeal to our senses

* Figurative language is rich in meaning. Thus knowing its meaning involves the reader's imagination.

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Alliteration

- the repetition of an initial consonant sound

- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Allusion

- a reference to something or someone often literary or biblical

- is a reference to a historical or literary persona or event

Anaphora
- the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses

Apostrophe
- breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character