Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Figures of speech- Hyperbole, Anaphora, Transferred Epithet

 

Hyperbole

Hyperbole is an exaggeration or overstatement in an expression or
piece of art. e.g I would not leave my wife in a million years. Her
head flew off to the sky when she saw me.

Anaphora

Anaphora is a kind of rhetorical repetition of a word or a phrase at
the end of successive lines and sentences. e.g Be him my foe, Be him a
gentile.


Transferred Epithet

Transferred Epithet
this is the transfer or epithet from the to which it rightly belongs
to another which it does not belong.E.g She cried all night on her
sleepless pillow.

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