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Binati Sheth

This course contains all the important figures of speech, also known as stylistic device or rhetorical device – these are techniques that give an auxiliary meaning, idea or feeling.

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In this course, Binati has discussed figures of speech – they are stylistic devices which provide emphasis, freshness of expression, clarity.

Overview

Accumulation is a figure of speech where arguments are presented again and again in a forceful manner.

Accumulation

Adjunction is a figure of speech in which a word, phrase or clause is placed at the beginning or the end of the sentence.

Adjunction

Adnomination is the repetition of words with the change in letter or sound.

Adnomination

Alliteration is a figure of speech which uses repeating sounds.

Alliteration

Allusion is a figure of speech that makes indirect references to existing literary devices.

Allusion

Anaphora is a figure of speech that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighbouring sentences to give them emphasis.

Anaphora

Antanaclasis Is a rhetorical device in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance.

Antanaclasis

Anti-climax is a figure of speech in which statements gradually descend in order of importance.

Anticlimax

Antiphrasis is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create funny conversations.

Antiphrasis

Antithesis is a figure of speech where two contrasting or opposing ideas are placed next to each other.

Antithesis

Apostrophe Is a figure of speech when Direct speech is redirected to an imaginary person, abstract quality or idea.

Apostrophe

Assonance is a figure of speech we use generally in verses; refers to rhyming repeating vowel sounds.

Assonance

Cataphora is a figure of speech where an earlier expression refers to or describes a forward expression.

Cataphora

Chiasmus is a figure of speech where two or more classes are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point.

Chiasmus

Climax is a figure of speech in which words, phrases or clauses are arranged in ascending order of preference.

Climax

Dysphemism is a figure of speech that uses harsher, more offensive words to bring a point forth.

Dysphemism

Ellipsis is a figure of speech where we omit redundant words or phrases.

Ellipsis

Euphemism is a figure of speech which is used to express some mild, indirect or vague to substitute for something harsher or blunder.

Euphemism

Epigram is a figure of speech which refers to concise,witty, memorable, surprising and satirical statements.

Epigram

Epiphora Is a figure of speech in which a sequence of words is repeated at the end of neighbouring clauses to give them emphasis.

Epiphora

Hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration.

Hyperbole

Hypophora is a figure of speech where the speaker asks a question and then immediately answer is it.

Hypophora

Irony is a figure of speech in which what is said and what is meant are two completely different things.

Irony

Litotes is a figure of speech where affirmative words are expressed by negating their opposite.

Litotes

Oxymoron is a figure of speech which combines contradictory terms together.

Oxymoron

Personification is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman entities.

Personification

A pun is a figure of speech which involves wordplay which suggests two or more meanings of the same word – generally with humorous consequences.

Puns

Merism figure of speech which combines words to enumerate an entire set of data.

Merism

Metalepsis figure of speech where references are deconstructed and then used.

Metalepsis

Metaphor is a Figure of speech in which we directly compare two or more unrelated subjects.

Metaphor

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by an associated thing or concept .

Metonymy

Simile is a figure of speech which compares two unlikely things using the words like, as, similar to, dissimilar to, etc.

Simile

Synecdoche is a figure of speech which uses a part of something to represent the whole and vice versa.

Synecdoche

Tautology is a figure of speech in which the same thing is said twice in different ways.

Tautology

Understatement is a figure of speech when a situation is deliberately made to seem less important or serious.

Understatement

Zeugma and Syllepsis are figures of speech which combine dissimilar and similar verbs respectively.

Zeugma and Syllepsis

Onomatopoeia not a figure of speech. It is actually certain words that lead to associations to other words.

Onomatopoeia (not a figure of speech)

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