Figures of Speech

Figures of SpeechGroup 3

Alicia, Cameron, Drew, & Ruslan

A change in the standard or usual syntax of words to create special effects.

Such as:

ApostropheRhetorical Question

AnaphoraAntithesisChiasmus

Figures of Speech (Schemes)

An address to a dead or absent person or to an inanimate object or abstract concept

“Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne”

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare

Apostrophe

• figure of speech in which words or phrases that are parallel in order and

syntax but express opposite or contrasting meanings

• Example:

“Setting foot on the moon may be a small step for a man but a giant step for

mankind.”

Antithesis

• -The intentional repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of

successive lines, stanzas, sentences or paragraphs.

o Example: Old and New Testament: series of Beatitudes from Jesus’s

Sermon on the mount.

Anaphora

• figure of speech were successive phrases or clauses that are parallel in

syntax but reverse in order of the analogous word

• Example:

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want

to forget."

Chiasmus

• A figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point.

• The question, a rhetorical device, is posed not to elicit a specific answer, but rather to encourage the listener to consider a message or viewpoint.

Examples: Is the Pope Catholic?

Is the sun hot?Is he a beautiful Arabian?

Rhetorical Question

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