English The Charge of the Light Brigade

 The Charge of the Light Brigade

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Figures of speech.

1.SIMILE

In simile two unlike things are explicitly compared. For example, “She is like a fairy”. A simile is introduced by words such as like, so, as etc.

2. METAPHOR

It is an informal or implied simile in which words like, as, so are omitted. For example, “He is like a lion (Simile) “and “He is a lion (metaphor)”. In the following examples, metaphors are underlined.

• She is a star of our family.
• The childhood of the world; the anger of the tempest; the deceitfulness of the riches: wine is a mocker.
• She is now in the sunset of her days

3.PERSONIFICATION

Personification is an attribution of personal nature, intelligence or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions. For example, in some phrases we use, the furious storm, the thirsty ground, and the pitiless cold.

 4.METONYMY

Metonymy is meant for a change of name. It is a substitute of the thing names for the thing meant. Following examples will clarify the concept.

• The pen is mightier than the sword.
• From the cradle to the grave. = from childhood to death.

5.APOSTROPHE

It is a direct address to some inanimate thing or some abstract idea as if it were living person or some absent person as if it were present. Example, “Boy’s mother loved him very much.”

6.IRONY 

In this mode of speech, the real meanings of the words used are different from the intended meanings. For example, the child of cobbler has no shoe.

7.ANTITHESIS

In antithesis, a striking opposition or contrast of words is made in the same sentence in order to secure emphasis. For example,

• To err is human, to forgive divine.

8.CLIMAX

It is an arrangement of a series of ideas in the order of increasing importance. For example, “What a piece of work man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties! In action, how like an angel!”

9.ALLITERATION

The repetition of the same letter or syllable at the beginning of two or more words is called alliteration. For example,

• By apt Alliteration’s artful a
• Glittering through the gloomy g
• The furrow follows f