Figures Of Speech Flashcards
Three types of puns:
- Repetition of a single word in two different senses
- A play on words that sound alike but are different in meaning
- Use of a single word with two different meaning within the context of the sentence
A play on the meaning of words
Pun
An implied comparison between two unlike things
Metaphor
An explicit comparison between two unlike things signaled by the use of LIKE or AS
Simile
Attributing human qualities to an inanimate object
Personification
Attributing human qualities to a force of nature
Pathetic fallacy
Attributing animal qualities that are not uniquely human to an inanimate object
Animism
Ex. But if we don’t hang together, we will hang separately.
Pun 1
Ex. He couldn’t get his bearings strait in the bearing straits.
Pun 2
Ex. The photograph that appeared in the London Times caused a royal flush.
Pun 3
Ex. The ink, like our pig, keep running out of the pen.
Pun 3
Ex. That horse’s rear didn’t send me my alimony check again this month
Metaphor
Ex. True art is a conduit between body and soul, between feeling an un abstracted and abstraction unfelt.
Metaphor
Ex. The grass is green and nearly cut, and the buildings cast a watchful eye over the clean quiet campus.
Personification
High blood pressure is very real and dangerous, snatching the lives of many people
Personification
The tornado tiptoes across the plains
Pathetic fallacy
The waves hissed and struck at his feet
Animism
The forest snorted in relief
Animism
