Metaphor and Simile

What is figure of speech?

• An expression that uses language in non-literal way. This are being express to suggest some effect, meaning, sound, image or any related resemblance. It can be metaphor, simile, personification or antithesis.

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What is simile?

• This is a form of figure of speech in which two unlike things are being compared to each other.
• Things are being compared using as and like.

e.g. Emie is like a flower in my garden.

emie is compared to a flower, they are absolutely different from each other.

e.g. Your gold earings are as shine in the morning.

Gold earings are being compared as shine in the morning.

What is Metaphor?

• A form of figure of speech in which words are being compared without the use of like and as.
• Phrase are being applied to something though literally its not applicable.
• To designate the words to emply a resemblance.
• representing some symbols.

e.g. Jhons love is everlasting on janes eyes

Life is a blessing, death is a curse

Time is gold , pain is thorns

obstacles are stones

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What is Personification?

• its a figure of speech on which an imaginary thing or creature is being conceived or figured to represent something.
• its an abstraction
• another piece of dramatic literary work

e.g. "River shout while flowing" it is a personification because river can not shout.

"Diamond is love" it is a personification because diamond is not a living things nor feel love.

What is antithesis?

• Its a figure of speech in which it deliberates contrasting ideas but in a balance phrase.
• Direct opposition and contrast

e.g. Peace is the antithesis of war.

Quite is the antithesis of noise.

Give me freedom or give me death.

Ballad and Monologue

What is ballad?

• Ballad is any romantic composition that can be sung in the same melody. It has romantic and sentimental character... usually composed of two stanzas.
• It is commonly called as the music for ballad.
• It is a narrative poem that anyone could sing it.

e.g. courtesy from my sample pre test

There lived a wife at Usher's Well,

And a wealthy wife was she;

She had three stout and stalwart sons,

and sent them o'er the sea.

What is a monologue?

• It is a form of poem with a dramatic composition being express with a single speaker.
• Its like a drama but being acted by a single character.
• addressing another character or speaking to the audience

e.g. fomous monologue "The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog"

There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu,

There's a little marbles cross below the town;

There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew

And the Yellow God forever gazes down.

what is a dramatic monologue?

• It is in a poetic form with a single character of speaker.
• Revealing her or himself in a dramatic form of situation.
• Addressed by a character to a second person
• It exhibits feelings and thoughts
• delivered loud to the audience but speaking alone.

e.g. courtesy from my practise prep test

She thanked men,-good! But thanked.

Somehow-I know not how-as if she ranked

My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name

With antibody's gift. Who'd stoop to blame

This short of trifling?