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Literature Form 5 Art

CHAPTER 3 : FIGURES OF SPEECH

Other figure of speech
  1. Anecdote: it is defined as a short and interesting or an amusing event purpose by the writer to support or demonstrate some coins to make readers and listeners laugh anecdote can include a tail or a short story. In facts it is a short description that can make a reader laugh over the topic presented.

 

  1. Alliteration: It means lateral in Latin and it means letters of the alphabet. It is stylistic devices in which a consonant sound or occur close to each other in the series consider the following examples: - a big bear bites a baby boy; -but a better butter makes a better butter

 

  1. Assonance: it takes place where two or more, word close to one another repeat the first vowel sound but start with different consonant sound e.g.: Men sell the wedding bell.

 

  1. Conflict: it is a literary element involving a trial between opposing forces usually, a protagonist and antagonist

 

  1. Diction: it is the style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of word of the speaker or writer. It is mostly in poetry and Drama

 

  1. Hyperbolic: it is derived from a Greek word “over casting” it is a figure of speech which involves exaggerated ideas. It is a device used in our day to day speech for examples.  The food was as high as a mountain.  

 

  1. Allusion: it is a brief an indirect reference to a person, place or thing or idea of historical, cultural literal or political significance e.g. don’t act as a Romeo infant of her

 

  1. Pathos: it is a quality of an experience in life that tells us a motion of pity, sympathy, sorrow. This can also be through body gesture e.g. granny/need a drop of Water, pepper is all over my body.

 

  1. Oxymoron: it is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to creat an effect e.g. cruel/kindness; living/death

 

  1. Satire: It is a litary technique employed by a writer to expose an criticise fulin foolishness and corruption of an individual of society by using humour, Irony hyperbolic etc

 

  1. Onomatopoeia: it is words which represent the nature type of thing there by making. The description more expressive or interesting e.g. Mme Mirelle slapped the child “pai pai”

 

  1. Denotation: it is generally defined as the literal or dictionary mean of a word while connotation refers to a meaning that is imply in a word apart from which he describes explicitly.
par Claude Foumtum