ENGLISH 9

The special way of using language.

• Parts of speech

• Figures of speech

• Linguistic Etiquette

• Grammar in daily used

It is a direct address to some inanimate thing or some abstract idea as if it were living person or some absent person as if it were present.

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Irony

These are non-human entities that are given human-like attributes or abilities.

• Simile

• Metonomy

• Personification

• Synecdoche

This is meant for a change of name. It is a substitute of the thing names for the thing meant. Following examples will clarify the concept.

• Metaphor

• Anaphora

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

Two different things are compared using "like" and "as".

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Irony

This is the understanding of one thing by means of another. Here, a part is used to designate the whole or the whole to designate a part.

• Metaphor

• Synecdoche

• Personification

• Alliteration

Direct comparison and not using "like" and "as".

• Personification

• Irony

• Simile

• Metaphor

In this mode of speech, the real meanings of the words used are different from the intended meanings.

• Alliteration

• Irony

• Metonymy

• Simile

It is a figure of speech which combines two seemingly contradictory or incongruous words for sharp emphasis or effect.

• Oxymoron

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Assonance

This is the used of exaggeration to express strong emotion.

• Irony

• Simile

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole