LITERATURE| LITERARY DEVICES|NONFICTION| LEARNING
My Most Favourite Figures of Speech
There are ten of them here: read, review and respond
How many can you agree with? How many can you disagree with? How many would you want to be removed from the list? Would you want any to be added?
Democracy is at work here.💯😂
Figures of speech are also known as literary devices or poetic devices. They make literary studies more understandable and pleasurable.
I would go perhaps according to their order of favouritism.
1. Transferred Epithet
Another name for epithet is ‘adjective’. That is for the records.
It is a deliberate transfer of an adjective from a person to a non-human object.
Examples:
- He tossed all night on a sleepless bed.
- The driver drove on a careless road.
On the above examples, who was sleepless: he or the bed; who was careless: the driver or the road? 🤣
2. Negative Positivism
This was discovered by a diligently talented, friendly youthful writer in the early nineties.
