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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.