Figure of Speech

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A figure of speech is figurative language in the form of a single word or phrase. It can be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words. There are mainly five figures of speech: simile,metaphor, hyperbole, personification and synecdoche. Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. However, clarity may also suffer from their use, as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity between literal and figurative interpretation. A figure of speech is sometimes called a rhetorical figure or a locution. Rhetoric originated as the study of the ways in which a source text can be transformed to suit the goals of the person reusing the material. For this goal, classical rhetoric detected four fundamental operations[1] that can be used to transform a sentence or a larger portion of a text: expansion, abridgement, switching, transferring and so on. Main article: Scheme (linguistics) * accumulation: Accumulating arguments in a concise forceful manner. * adnomination: Repetition of words with the same root word. * alliteration: Series of words that begin with the same consonant. * adynaton: hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths insinuating a complete impossibility. * anacoluthon: Transposition of clauses to achieve an unnatural order of a sentence. * anadiplosis: Repetition of a word at the end of a clause and then at the beginning of its succeeding clause. * anaphora: Repetition of the same word or group of words in a paragraph. * anastrophe: Changing the object, subject and verb order in a clause. * anticlimax: An abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintended) on the part of a speaker or writer from the dignity of idea which he appeared to be aiming at. * antanaclasis: Repetition of a

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