Figures of Speech
Understand how figurative language carries an implied meaning and use context, language pattern and effect to identify the device accurately.
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Figurative Meaning and a Figures-of-Speech Recognition Method
Understand how figurative language carries an implied meaning and use context, language pattern and effect to identify the device accurately.
Open article →Rhyming Words, Rhyme Scheme and Sound Pattern
Learn how rhyming words create repeated end sounds and how letters record a stanza’s rhyme scheme through a reliable line-by-line method.
Open article →Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance and Onomatopoeia
Distinguish repeated initial consonants, neighbouring consonant or vowel sounds, and words that imitate the sounds they name.
Open article →Simile, Metaphor and Implied Comparison
Compare how similes use like or as while metaphors state a non-literal identity, then identify the shared quality that makes each comparison meaningful.
Open article →Personification, Epithet and Transferred Epithet
Distinguish human qualities given to non-human subjects, characteristic descriptive labels and adjectives transferred to a different noun.
Open article →Anaphora, Repetition and Hyperbole for Emphasis
Recognise repeated openings, broader recurring words or lines, and deliberate exaggeration, then explain the emphasis each pattern creates.
Open article →Imagery, Connotation, Synecdoche, Paradox and Rhetorical Questions
Identify sensory pictures, suggested associations, part–whole substitution, apparent contradiction and questions asked to make a point.
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