Question

What are the 10 figures of speech?

Answer 1

Please read the list below.

Explanation:

Alliteration
Repeating of the first consonant throughout a phrase or sentence.

Anaphora
Repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of sentences.

Antithesis
The comparison of contrasting ideas within a sentence or paragraph.

Apostrophe
Disrupting a thought to address someone or something not immediately within the thought process.

Assonance
Repetition of similar sounds within the structure of associated words.

Chiasmus
A verbal pattern reversing the pattern of terms within a phrase or sentence.

Euphemism
Replacing an explicit term with a not so explicit word or phrase.

Hyperbole
An exaggeration for the effect of playing on emotion.

Irony
The use of words, phrase or image to bring about the opposite meaning of what is intended.

Litotes
The use of understatement to bring a positive outcome to a negative idea.

Metaphor
A comparison of objects that seem to have nothing in common.

Metonymy
Reference to a person or thing by associating the surroundings without direct reference.
Onomatopoeia
Using words to create the approximation of sounds.

Oxymoron
The ise of contradictory terms to describe one thought.

Paradox
A statement of contradiction of thought.

Personification
Providing a human quality to an inanimate object.

Pun
The use words to play on a thought or idea.

Simile
The comparison of two unrelated items or ideas through phrasing using “like” or “as”.

Synechdoche
Description of a thought or item by using the whole to describe the part or the part to the whole, general to specific or specific to general.

Understatement
Using words to downplay a thought or idea.