Figures of Speech

    A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from ordinary language use in order to produce a rhetorical effect. 

Figures of Speech may be classified as under: 

1. Those based on resemblance:

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Apostrophe

2. Those based on Contrast: 

• Antithesis

• Epigram

• Oxymoron 

• Paradox

 3. Those based on Association: 

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

4. Those depending on construction: 

• Climax

• Anticlimax