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Classification Of Figure Of Speech
There are many figures of speech. They may be classified as follows:-
A. Figures based on similarity or analogy or agreement:-
1. Simile 2. Metaphor 3. Allegory 4. Parable 5. Fable
B. Figures based on association -
1. Metonymy 2. Synecdoche 3. Hypallage 4. Allusion
C. Figures based on difference:-
1. Antithesis 2. Epigram 3. Oxymoron 4. Paradox 5. Climax 6. Anti-climax 7. The condensed sentence.
D. Figures based on imagination:-
1. Personification 2. Pathetic Fallacy 3. Apostrophe 4. Vision 5. Hyperbole. (Exaggeration).
E. Figures based on indirectness:-
1. Innuendo 2. Irony 3. Sarcasm 4. Periphrasis 5. Euphemism 6. Litotes.
F. Figures based on sound:-
1. Onomatopoeia 2. Alliteration 3. Paronomasia 4. Pun
G. Figures based on construction:-
1. Zeugma 2. Chiasmus 3. Interrogation 4. Exclamation 5. Aposiopesis 6. Hendiadys 7. Asyndeton 8. Polysyndeton 9. Hyperbaton.
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