Simile: (Simile) This is a metaphor used to compare two different elements with at least one property or characteristic. Common ground. For comparison, words like as, as ... as, if and like are used to transfer one property we associate to another. For example, good news from afar is like cold water for thirsty people. Anyone can see that this elephant looks like a snake.
2) Metaphor: (Metaphor) Like a simile, it also compares two different elements, but unlike similes, this comparison is implicit rather than declarative. For example, the world is a stage. /The diamond department is the heart and center of the store.
3) Analogy: (Analogy) It is also a form of comparison, but unlike similes or metaphors, comparison is used at a meeting point. Analogy draws a parallel line between two different things, which have several common qualities or similarities.
4) personification: (personification) endowing animals with human feelings, or endowing inanimate objects with life and personal attributes, or endowing them with thoughts and abstractions. For example, the wind roared through the Woods.
Exaggeration: the use of exaggeration. Exaggeration is the use of exaggeration for emphasis. For example, he almost died laughing.
6) understatement: (implicit statement) it is exaggeration, or the antonym of exaggeration. It has the effect of imposing a fact through intentional (deliberate) understanding, and leaving a deeper impression on the listener or reader through what is only implied or unspoken rather than a pure statement. For example, this is no joke.
7) Euphemism: (Euphemism) It is a pleasant or offensive (unintentional) expression, which means that something unpleasant may be proposed or implied. For example, we call "death" "death".
8) Metonymy (Metonymy) This is a figure of speech, which is related to substituting one thing for another. Pen (writing) is more powerful than sword (power). Metonymy means that two different things are not similar but inseparable, so one thing is often used instead of the other.
A few years later, it was reported that Napoleon would personally visit them. ...
A few years later, they heard that Napoleon would visit them in person.
"Words" have replaced "news and information" here.
Al said with his eyes, "Yes".
Al said with his eyes, "Yes".
"Speaking" should be the function of the mouth, in fact, it is to express "speaking meaning" with the eyes.
9) Synecdoche involves the essence of part to whole or whole to part. For example, they say that everyone has bread and work. She is dressed in silk.
10) metonymy is also related to substitution. Although it is still used frequently, it is not often used now. For example, Solomon is a wise man. Daniel is a wise and fair judge. Traitor. Traitor.
1 1) Pun: (Pun) is a game in words, more specifically, a game in word form and meaning. For example, a shell took his legs, so he laid down his weapon. (The "arm" here has two meanings: a person's body; Weapons carried by soldiers. )/Napoleon was shocked. "Either you are crazy or I am," he declared. "Both, sir!" The Swede shouted proudly. The word "Both" is a pun, which means that Napoleon and the soldier are both crazy. The soldier took part in two battles under Napoleon's command.
12) Syllepsis: (in a word) has two connotations.
In the first case, it is a figure, a word, or a special form or morphological change of a word, which refers to two or more words in the same sentence, but only applies to or agrees with one of them grammatically or syntactically. For example, he talks to you and me and wants us to follow him. Here us is used to refer to you and me. )
In the second case, one word may refer to two or more words in the same sentence. For example, when he was fighting, lost his limbs and brain, and died, others stayed to pursue education and career. (here refers to literally losing limbs; Losing one's mind is figurative, which means going crazy. )
(Yoke collocation) It is a single word, which is used to modify or dominate two or more words in the same sentence, and only applies to one of them in meaning, or applies to them in different meanings. For example, the sun won't burn you during the day and the moon won't burn you at night. It's not strong enough to burn at noon here.
Irony: (Irony) Irony is a rhetorical device, which emphasizes that the original meaning of words is contrary to their usual meaning by saying things that are contrary to their meaning. For example, we are lucky, and what you said makes me feel good.
15) innuendo: (innuendo) This is a mild form of satire, implying something that belittles (disagrees) or does not promise (praise) people or subjects in a rather circuitous (tortuous) way. For example, the weatherman said there would be bugs. He must read in the bathroom.
16) irony: (ironically) It irony is a strong form of iron. It attacks in a mocking and painful way, with the purpose of belittling, mocking and hurting the feelings of the attacked object. For example, the law is like a spider's web, which may catch small flies but let wasps break through the web.
Paradox: (paradox) This is a metaphor, which refers to the consistency of a statement or proposition. On the surface, it seems contradictory, absurd or contrary to established facts or practices, but after further thinking and research, it may prove to be true, well-founded and even contain a concise point of view. For example, haste makes waste.
This is a compressed paradox, which is connected by two contrasting, contradictory or incongruous terms, such as bittersweet memory, orderly chaos and proud humiliation.
Duality: It arranges the contrasting words or ideas freely in a balanced structural form to achieve the purpose of emphasis. For example, words are silver; silence is golden.
20) epigram: (epigram) It states a simple truth concisely (favorably) and euphemistically (strongly). It is usually concise, and it arouses interest and surprise because of its profound insight into some aspects of human behavior or feelings. For example, few people sympathize with the poor except the poor.
2 1) climax: (gradual) comes from the Greek word "ladder", which means that ideas advance at a consistent or almost consistent remarkable speed. Or strength, like a step rising evenly on a ladder. For example, I came, I saw, I conquered.
22) anti-climax or bathos: (sudden drop) is the antonym of climax. It includes quieting one's mind in descending order of importance or intensity, from strong to weak, from heavy to light or evil. For example, but things will die, without this or that, they will die, and then they will be given to a university or a cat.
23) Apostrophe: (suddenly shouting) In this figure of speech, a thing, place, idea or person (dead or absent) is called as if present, listening and understanding what is being said. For example, Britain! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
24) transferring epic: (transferring adjectives) This is a rhetorical method. Epic (adjectives or descriptive phrases) is transferred from a noun to another noun. It should be correctly modified, but it is not really applicable or belongs to another noun. For example, I spent sleepless nights for my project.
25) alliteration: (alliteration) In order to achieve the effect, it is related to sound, not to word meaning. This is a device that repeats the same sound at different frequencies. Vals and because repeated sounds are naturally initials, they are also called "prosody". For example, the breeze, foaming at the mouth, and then freedom. In a sentence, alliteration has more than two words or phrases connected together, and the first syllables have the same letters or sounds to enhance the sense of rhythm of the language. How and why he came to Princeton, New Jersey, is a story full of struggle, success and sadness.
26) Onomatopoeia: (Onomatopoeia) It is a device that uses words to imitate the sound made by an object (animate or inanimate), or is related to or reminiscent of a certain action or movement. On the roof of the school house, some pigeons are cooperating gently. /She exposed me to everything that I could touch or feel-sunshine, the rustling of silk, the chirping of insects, the creaking of doors, the voice of my lover.