Figures of Speech:
Figurative language changes the literal meaning,to make a meaning fresh or clearer, to express complexity, to capture a physical or sensory effect or to external meaning. Figurative language is also called figures of speech we will discuss:
1. Metaphor
2. Simili
3. Personification
4. Paradox
5. Aphostrophe
6. Hyperbole
7. Pun
8. Symbolism
1. Metaphor
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.Unlike simile we do not use direct comparison by employing 'like' or 'as' for example star field in tranquility not used Ocean as indirect comparison for time:
“ Time slides
A gentle ocean waves upon waves”
Metaphor emphasizes on usual and vivid image, strong Association of words and mood of the poet.
2. Simili:
Simile is a figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared usually in a phrase introduced by'like’ or 'as’ for example:
Good coffee is like friendship, rich, warm and strong.
3. Personification:
Personification in which ideas are represented as a person or the nature and attributed with the personality and human characteristics.
Forms of Personification:
Personification has two distinguish form:
I) When personality is ascribed to the inanimate as in “The mountains sing together, The Hills rejoice and clap their head”.
II) When some qualities of life are attributed to the inanimate as a ‘raging Storm: an ‘Angry sea' and a whistling wind etc.
4. Paradox:
Paradox he is a literary device or a statement or situation containing apparently contradictory are incompatible elements but upon closer inspection might be true for example “one short sleep past, we wake eternally” the purpose of paradox is it to create a new meaning in place of conventional sex of words.
5. Apostrophe:
Hand in hand with personification hopeful goes apostrophe: way of addressing someone or something invisible or not ordinary spoken to. In an apostrophe, a poet (in these example words worth ) may address ininanimate object.
6. Hyperbole:
Most of us, from time to time, emphasize it. With a statement containing exaggeration. For example:” Faster than greased lightning”.”I have told him a thousand times”. We speak, then, not literal truth but user figure of speech called over statement or hyperbole.
7. Pun:
A pun or play Words reminds us of another word similar are identical sound but of very different denotation. Although, puns at their worst can be piddling quibbles, at best they can sharply point to surf rising but genuine resemblances. The name of a dentists country estate, tooth acres, is accurate: aching teath paid for the property.
8. Symbole/Symbolism:
Symbol is another figure of speech which embellishes the speech. It can be defined as object animate or inanimatewhich represents or stand for something else.
For example: Keats starts his odd with real Nightingale but quickly it becomes a symbol for life of pure, unmixed joy.
