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What is the purpose of interrogation in figures of speech?
Which figure of speech is used to express strong feelings or emotions?
What is the opposite of climax in figures of speech?
What is the term for the repetition of the same letter or syllable at the beginning of two or more words?
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What type of word formation suggests or echoes the sense, as in 'cuckoo', 'bang', or 'hiss'?
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What is the arrangement of a series of ideas in the order of increasing importance?
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Who is the author of the quote 'What a piece of work man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties!'?
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What figure of speech is used in the phrase 'O lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud I fall upon the thorns of life; I bleed!'?
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What is the term for a ludicrous descent from the higher to the lower in figures of speech?
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What is the purpose of alliteration in figures of speech?
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Study Notes
Rhetorical Modes
- Interrogation: a rhetorical mode used to affirm or deny something strongly, often used in rhetorical questions.
Figures of Speech
Types of Figures of Speech
- Exclamation: used for strong expression of feelings, e.g., "O lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud I fall upon the thorns of life; I bleed!"
- Climax: an arrangement of ideas in order of increasing importance, e.g., "What a piece of work man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties! In action, how like an angel!"
- Anticlimax (Bathos): a ludicrous descent from the higher to the lower, e.g., "a man so various, that he seemed to be. Not one, but all mankind's epitome; who in the course of one revolving moon; was lawyer, statesman, fiddler, and buffoon."
Figures of Speech Examples
- Alliteration: repetition of the same letter or syllable at the beginning of two or more words, e.g., "By apt Alliteration's artful aid Glittering through the gloomy gas"
- Onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds, e.g., "cuckoo", "bang", "growl", "hiss"
- Apostrophe: direct address to an inanimate thing or abstract idea as if it were a living person or an absent person as if present, e.g., "Boy's mother loved him very much."
- Hyperbole: an emphatic statement made by overstatement, e.g., "Virtues as the sands of the shore."
- Synecdoche: understanding one thing by means of another, e.g., "I have the Viceroy, love the man." and "All hands (crew) at work."
- Transferred Epithets: qualifying objective transferred from a person to a thing, e.g., "sleepless night", "sunburn mirth", and "melodious plain".
- Euphemism: speaking in agreeable terms of something unpleasant, e.g., "He is telling us a fairy tale" (a lie) and "He has fallen asleep" (he is dead).
- Irony or Sarcasm: real meaning of words is different from the intended meaning.
Other Figures of Speech
- Simile: explicitly comparing two unlike things, e.g., "She is like a fairy".
- Metaphor: an informal or implied simile, e.g., "He is a lion".
- Personification: attributing personal nature, intelligence or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions, e.g., "the furious storm", "the thirsty ground", and "the pitiless cold".
- Metonymy: a change of name.
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Test your knowledge on figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, and hyperboles with this quiz. Identify examples of figures of speech in sentences and understand their meanings.
