Figures of speech

A metaphor by any other name… A literary trope is the use of figurative language for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. The word trope has also come to be used for describing commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices, motifs or clichés in creative works. Metaphors are rhetorical devices used to transfer properties of one concept onto another. In the process of elaboration of the metaphoric correspondences, cognitive, affective, and somatic ways of knowing may be involved.

Even though it is very hard to characterize the different types of style as it includes different literary terms and techniques, the first step would be to use a descriptive word which would not only help throughout the process but will also give the basic information needed for the beginning of that process. What could be said in regards to both passages given from Robinson Crusoe and Tristram Shandy in relation to that descriptive term would be that both have quite similar appraisals. Both passages

The famous “I Have a Dream” speech delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the historic March in Washington in August 1963 effectively urged the US government to take actions and to finally set up equality between the black and white people in America. Although there were many factors that contributed to the success of the speech, it was primarily King’s masterly use of different rhetorical instruments that encouraged Kennedy and his team to take further steps towards racial equality. King effectively

“The Alchemist” is a novel written by Paulo Coelho in 1988. Regarded as Coelho’s best novel, it captures the elixir of life through the view of a sanguine Spanish Shepard. Set in a forsaken church in Spain at night; the young Shepard Santiago tastes the exquisite sensation of a compelling dream. He dreams that a young lad tells him about a hidden treasure nigh the Egyptian pyramids. After the dream relapses more than once, Santiago opts to confer an old man and an old woman who tell him that his

of the poem says that the said “daughter” the author is speaking of is older now, but the poem concentrates on the past. Pastan’s figure of speech with the use of metaphors, imagery, enjambment show how the bicycle is a part of life’s journey and the diction helps demonstrate the young daughter’s maturation from a child to an adult. Pastan uses several figures of speech to convey what she is presenting. For example, enjambment is used, where one line runs into another. Such words are, “pumping” (18)

Lit Terms Project 2 Romantic Irony Metonymy A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated. Basically, it is associating something with another thing or concept. Metonymy is used to develop symbolism by giving a deeper meaning to everyday objects or ideas. Using metonymy can draw a reader’s attention by showing deeper or hidden meanings. They allow for a reader to dig deeper into a text, as opposed to

stubborn ignorance of a caveman. He also uses other devices such as a pun, applied in the line, "And to whom I was like to give offence." The last word of the line simply emphasizes the importance of the subject, the fence. The most prominent figure of speech, however, is the ironic, "Good fences make good neighbors." This is completely opposite of the connotation of the poem. Fences do not make neighbors, but strangers that are apathetic towards each other. The neighbor seems to prefer this approach

“The Alchemist” is a novel written by Paulo Coelho in 1988. Regarded as Coelho’s best novel, it captures the elixir of life through the view of a sanguine Spanish Shepard. Set in a forsaken church in Spain at night; the young Shepard Santiago tastes the exquisite sensation of a compelling dream. He dreams that a young lad tells him about a hidden treasure nigh the Egyptian pyramids. After the dream relapses more than once, Santiago opts to confer an old man and an old woman who tell him that his

This figure of speech is seen in the fourth paragraph when Rodriguez says “I use the word ‘comedy’ here as the Greeks used it, with upmost seriousness, to suggest a world where youth is not a fruitless metaphor; where it is possible to start anew; where it is possible

Ballad of Birmingham In the poem Ballad of Birmingham, by Dudley Randall, written in 1969, Mr. Randall uses of irony to describes the events of the mothers decision, and also her concern for the welfare of her darling little child. It seems odd that this child would even know what a freedom march is, but this would be considered normal back in the early 1960's, when Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. had rallies and freedom marches to free the African American people from discrimination