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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGES

Figurative expressions can be used in writing.They use words that convey a meaning different from what a writing says or writes.

1. Simile -directly states a comparison between two unlike things generally by using the words like or as. example: The room is packed like sardines.

2. Metaphor -is an indirect comparison between two unlike objects by equating one with the another. example: The policemen wolfed the criminal.kikang19 11:18, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

3. Personification -applies human qualities to something not human. example: A tribe of mosquitoes was rehearsing their war song.

4. Hyperbole -uses exaggeration example: He ate up to his neck.

5. Irony -uses a word to signify the opposite of what is said example: I was very happy when the nice robber took all our appliances at home!

6. Apostrophe -addresses personified objects as real persons, the absent as if present, and the dead as if they were alive. example: O Death, visit me now.

7. Metonymy -is a substitution of one noun for another which it suggests. It is based not on resemblance but on association like the author for his works, the course for the product, the cause for the effect,etc. example: We study Juan Luna today.

8. Oxymoron - are contradictory words example: Parting is such a sweet sorrow.

kikang19 13:43, 27 October 2016 (UTC)