Figures of Speech Group 3 Alicia, Cameron, Drew, & Ruslan
Feb 23, 2016
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
@thefalamonster @BeautyArabian