English 10 — Figures Of Speech Examples

Front 1

Anaphora

Back 1

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, i needed a vacation, I needed a home. What I had was a coat, a halt, and a gun.

Front 2

Antithesis

Back 2

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.

Front 3

Assonance

Back 3

If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got... fleeced. "

Front 4

Chiasmus

Back 4

Nice to see you, to see you, nice!

Front 5

Euphemism

Back 5

You've got a prime figure. You really have, you know.

Front 6

Irony

Back 6

I started riding these train in the forties. Those days a man would give up his seat for a woman. Now we're liberated and we have to stand.

Front 7

Irony

Back 7

This, that we've come all this way, we have made all this progress, but you know we've lost the little things, the niceties.

Front 8

Metaphor

Back 8

A man may break a word with you sir, and words are but wind"

Front 9

Onomatopoeia

Back 9

Ugh ugh ugh

Front 10

Oxymoron

Back 10

Aft naturally

Front 11

Personification

Back 11

The wind stood up and gave a shout. He whistled on his fingers and kicked the withered leaves about and thumped the branches with his hand. And he said he'd kill and kill and kill and so he will, so he will.

Front 12

Paradox

Back 12

War is peace

Front 13

Paradox

Back 13

Freedom is slavery

Front 14

Pun

Back 14

A vulture boards a plane, carrying a two dead possums. The attendant looks at him and says, "I'm sorry Sir, only one carrion allowed pee passenger"

Front 15

Simile

Back 15

Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong.

Front 16

Synecdoche

Back 16

The sputtering economy could make a difference if you're trying to get a deal on a new set of wheels.

Front 17

Understatement

Back 17

The grave's a fine and a private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Front 18

Metaphor

Back 18

She is the star of our school.

Front 19

Synecdoche

Back 19

Lend me a hand

Front 20

Synecdoche

Back 20

A ten sail

Front 21

Elegy

Back 21

WH Auden's "In Memory of William Butler Yeats" and "Funeral Blues"

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Epic

Back 22

Homer's Iliad

Front 23

Epic

Back 23

Odyssey

Front 24

Epic

Back 24

Virigil's Aenid

Front 25

Epic

Back 25

Milton's Paradise Lost

Front 26

Hyperbole

Back 26

John donne's "Song: Go and Catch a Falling star"