Last month we did Antithesis and Oxymoron. 3 more figures of speech for you!
Synecdoche
is pretty abstruse – I had to look it up and was surprised. It applies when you name something by just
referring to part of them eg 'suits' to mean business people – it also applies
the other way round – as in saying 'England won the test match' – England here
stands for its cricket team.
Irony –
oh boy, when I researched the meaning of this term, mostly I could only find
really boring jargon laden explanations.
So I'll leave you to work it out for yourself from the examples.
Anthropomorphism –
this one is a bit easier although it is a mouthful. It is where you assign human qualities to an
animal or thing. We do this all the
time. In the classic Watership Down the
rabbits could talk. And Mr Ed of
course. And a whole empire was built on
Mickey Mouse. And the lovely work of
Beatrix Potter.
Next month – Pun, Metonymy and Onomatopoeia – how on
earth will we be able to wait that long!
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