USE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• GUIDED BY ----------- HEMLATA DUBEY

WHAT IS FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE OR FIGURE OF SPEECH ???

-Om Dhumne

• Figurative language is the use of descriptive words, phrases and sentences to convey a message that means something without directly saying it.

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• Its creative wording is used to build imagery to deepen the audience's understanding and help provide power to words by using different emotional, visual and sensory connections.

-om dhumne

Importance of Figure of Speech-

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1. It enhances the beauty of the writing. It makes the sentence deeper and leaves the reader with a sense of wonder. It brings life to the words used by the writer.
2. The figure of Speech not only shows the writers intent but also his purpose of using such language. 
3. It adds flavour to the writing and makes it so much more enjoyable for the reader

-Piyush Raj

Categories of Figure of speech

• Figure of resemblance:-

They are used when like objects come under notice.� Ex=Simile , Metaphor ,etc., come under this group

• Figure of contrast:-

They are used when unlike object come under our notice.

Ex=Oxymoron , litotes and etc.

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-om Dhumne

• Figure of Association:-

In this category of figure of speech, association between 2 objects has been carried out.

Ex= Allusion , Metonymy and etc.

• Figure of construction:-

Those figures which bring to our imagination lifeless things as if they are alive .

Ex= Interrogation , Hyperbole and etc.

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-Pushp Raj

• Figure of indirectness of speech:-

These Figures are employed when we want to suggest things by implication rather than by direct or simple.

Ex=Irony , Sarcasm and etc

• Figure of sound:-

We use these figures when we make the sound of the words suggest the sense or when we fix a point more firmly in the memory.�Ex=Such figures are Alliteration , Rhyme and etc

-Divyansh Singh

#Types of Figure Of Speech�

• Simile-
• Metaphor- 
• Personification-
• Apostrophe-
• Oxymoron-
• Hyperbole-
• Alliteration-
• Idiom-
• Litotes-
• Allusion-
• Anaphora
• Pun
• Understatement

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-Om Dhumne

SIMILE

• In a simile, two things which are completely unlocked are compared with each other. A simile is introduced by words such as like, so, as etc.
• Examples-
• The flower is as pretty as a picture.
• He is as sober as a judge.

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-Tushar

METAPHOR

• It is an informal or implied simile in which the words “like’ ‘as’ are avoided. For example, “He is like a Giant. (Simile) “and “He is a Giant. (metaphor)”. 
• Examples-
•  You are an apple of my eye.
• Ocean’s sound is music to my ear.

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-Tushar

PERSONIFICATION

In Personification, non-living things,  abstract ideas or qualities are mentioned as humans or living things.

Example-

• Angry clouds surrounded the island.
• Earth was thirsty for water.

-Harsha deepu

Apostrophe-�

• In this figure of speech, the writer mentions the absent or inanimate objects as alive and writes about them.
• I am – I'm: “I'm planning to write a book someday.”
• You are – You're: “You're going to have a lot of fun with your new puppy.”
• She is – She's: “She's always on time.”

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-Harsha deepu

Oxymoron-�

• An Oxymoron is when two words are used together in a sentence but they seem to be in contrast with each other. An oxymoron is a figure of speech that willingly uses two differing ideas. This contradiction creates a paradoxical image in the reader or listener's mind that creates a new concept or meaning for the whole.
• Example-
•  Life is bittersweet.
• They knew they could feel the joyful sadness on his

arrival.

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-Divyanash

Hyperbole-�

• Hyperbole is when you use the words to exaggerate what you mean or emphasize a point. It is used to make something seemed bigger or more important than it actually is.
• Example- 
•      It has been ages that I have had a proper meal.
•   Usain Bolt runs faster than the wind.

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-Divyanash

Alliteration- �

It is the series of words which commence with the same letter. Alliteration consists of the repetition of a sound or of a letter at the beginning of two or more words.

For Example-

• Dirty dolphins dove across the ocean.
• Purple pandas painted portraits. 

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-Pushpraj

Idiom-�

• A figure of speech is a phrase or word used in a non-literal sense for rhetorical or rich effect. It is an expression that is different from its literal meaning.

Example

• “I don’t want to be Hayley’s friend anymore, she stabbed me in the back!”
• “Sorry, guys, I have to hit the hay now!”

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-Pushpraj

• Litotes

• Litotes is a figure of speech featuring a phrase that utilizes negative wording or terms to express a positive assertion or statement.
• Litotes is a common literary device, most often used in speech, rhetoric, and nonfiction.

Examples:-

• he novel is not bad.
• You’re not wrong.
• My feelings are not unhurt.
• I can’t disagree with your logic.

-Ayush Chawre

Allusion

# An allusion is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or

other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.

# If an allusion is obscure or misunderstood,

it can lose effectiveness by confusing the reader.

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Examples

• She felt like she had a golden ticket. (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
• That guy is young, scrappy, and hungry. (Hamilton)
• His smile is like kryptonite to me. (Superman’s weakness)

-Lokesh

Anaphora���A literary or oratorical device involving the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several sentences or clauses

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• For everything there is a season, and a time

for every matter under heaven:

• a time to be born, and a time to die;

a time to plant, and a time to pluck up

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-Lokesh

Pun

A pun is generally used in plays where one word has two different meanings. It is used to create humour. Humorous use of words of different meanings or the words of the same sound but different meanings is known as Pun.

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Example -

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• A bicycle can’t stand on its own because it is two-tired.
• Where do you find giant snails? On the ends of the giants

fingers.

-Akshat

Understatement 

 When you try to say or show something of no importance or less importance.

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Example - 

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• Referring a big wound to just a scratch
• Saying it little dry instead of desert
• Referring big destruction to just an accident

-Akshat

Uses of figure of speech

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• It enhances the beauty of the writing. It makes the sentence deeper and leaves the reader with a sense of wonder.

• Figures of speech are used in everything from descriptions (of people, settings, events, etc) to comparisons to explanations.

• It can also help the reader to understand the underlying symbolism of a scene or more fully recognize a literary theme.

• Figurative language also is used to link two ideas with the goal of influencing an audience to see a connection even if one does not actually exist.

uses of figure

of speech

-Krushnakant

Prepared by:-

• Om Dhumne
• Tushar Telrandhe
• Lokesh Upadhya
• Pushp Raj
• Krushnakant Thakare
• Ayush Chawre
• Divyansh Singh
• Harsha deepu
• Piyush raj
• Akshat

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