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Title: Figurative Devices


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Figurative Devices
Part II
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What is Figurative Language?
  • Figurative language is a name given to a class of
    literary conventions that are
  • not meant to be interpreted literally, but rather
    by utilizing the readers imagination or sense of
    irony
  • or by drawing parallels to other, seemingly
    unrelated, events and ideas.

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Apostrophe
  • Addressing someone or some personified
    abstraction that is not physically present
  • Example
  • O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

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Pun
  • A verbal gag where a word may have two or more
    meanings
  • Mercutio Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall
    find me a grave man.
  • At PHUHS, also known as a Macfarlaneism

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Oxymoron, Paradox
  • Using contradiction in a striking manner that
    oddly makes sense
  • A statement constructed in phrase or sentence
    form is usually called a paradox
  • Without laws, we can have no freedom."
  • I must be cruel only to be kind.
  • A pair of words indicating this concept is called
    an oxymoron
  • O brawling love, O loving hate

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Metonymy
  • In which something closely related to a subject
    is being substituted for it
  • Think of the idea of a metaphor, only with a
    comparison of similar ideas, rather than
    dissimilar ones
  • The use of the word crown for royalty, the pen is
    mightier than the sword.

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Synecdoche
  • A figure of speech which uses a part of a
    physical object to represent the whole
  • The criminal was placed behind bars
  • the gossiping neighbor was a wagging tongue.

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Metonymy and Synecdoche
  • Metonymy and synecdoche may overlap and thus
    become difficult to distinguish. Visualize a
    haughty minister entering a rowdy tavern
  • As those pursed lips came through the swinging
    door, the atmosphere was suddenly soured.
  • The pursed lips signal the presence of the
    minister, and are therefore a synecdoche, but
    they also suggest a sense of sin and guilt that
    makes the tavern patrons uneasy. So, as they
    could be construed as tying into religion in this
    context, they would also be metonymy.
  • When this overlap occurs, the device is usually
    labeled a metonymy.

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Metonymy and Synecdoche
  • Remember, similes and metaphors use dissimilar
    items or ideas for comparison. Metonymy and
    synecdoche use related or similar items or ideas
    for comparison.
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