There are times when mum wants to describe you exactly the way you look. Or sometimes when your friend, boy or girl friend wants to let you know exactly how they feel, or the height of what you have done well or wrong… They don’t talk the normal way or use the normal words at those times, so they can say what you’ll not forget anytime soon, maybe even in many years to come – most times they use figures of speech.
Figures of speech are Literary terms that are employed to achieve emphasis, overstatement or understatement of life events or facts in a way that they remain in the mind of a reader for deep meaning and clearer understanding, and likewise keeping memories…
Sure you know the world of words is like sight of sands by the sea, so we only can say some and leave some others for other times…
Let’s choose few figures of speech per time, tell your friends to tell their friends, then come another time for more… Smiles. It’s cmrc.com.ng
Speak in figures of Speech Today…
Figures of speech are Literary terms that are employed to achieve emphasis, overstatement or understatement of life events or facts in a way that they remain in the mind of a reader for deep meaning and clearer understanding, and likewise keeping memories…
Sure you know the world of words is like sight of sands by the sea, so we only can say some and leave some others for other times…
Let’s choose few figures of speech per time, tell your friends to tell their friends, then come another time for more… Smiles. It’s cmrc.com.ng
Speak in figures of Speech Today…
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1. Simile
Similes are figures of speech that compare two things in order to emphasise a meaning. They place them by sides especially with the use of adverbs "as" or "Like".
- You are as Skinny as a rail
- You smell like rat
That time when you don't know how to describe how gentle your friend is, and your little cat comes to mind, then tell them they are 'as gentle as my cat'. Smiles.
2. Metaphor
Take a more straight and strict step further from Simile, then you should be speaking in metaphors.
Metaphors are figures of speech that express a firm, assuring and direct comparison, using few words to achieve deep meaning.
- You are a mountain - expressing how big a person is.
- I met my Angel today, she is a Queen, because her name is Esther. -
That is just to tell you that I met someone so dear to me, and she is so precious to me, and her name is Esther. So she is like the Biblical queen.
Metaphors go straight to call a thing or person who look like somethig - that thing exactly. You must note that, while simile compares with "as or like", metaphor already finished comparing in the head, but only declares in straight words like "You are a..." "She is..." sometimes even without "are" or "is", when Metaphor sees a disobedient child, she shouts: "will you leave that place? GOAT!"
Or even naming something in deep sentence : "Harvest of Corruption" maybe things go bad, and you name that situation a reward of curruption. But you chose the heavy and deep word 'Harvest' sometimes Metaphor uses conjunction 'of' to emphasise deep meaning.
Metaphor is a strict mother!
Metaphor is the Father of Simile...