Figures of Speech Based on
Similarity or Likeness can be divided into Simile, Metaphor, Personification,
and Apostrophe.
Simile
Similie is a figure in which a
comparison is made between two objects of different kinds which are alike at
least in one point.
Examples of Simile:
-She is as strong as a lion.
-Elsa is like a lovely rose.
Metaphor
Metaphor is a figure in which
there is comparison of one thing with another without the words like or as.
Examples of Metaphor:
-She is the lion of the
battle.
-Ministers are the pillars of
state.
Personification
Personification is a figure in
which objects without life are spoken of as having the qualities of a human
being.
Examples of Personification:
-The earth thirsts for rain,
when it rains it smiles with plenty.
-Let not Ambition mock their
useful toil.
Apostrophe
Apostrophe is a figure by
which the speaker addresses some inanimate thing or some abstract idea as if it
were a living person or some absent person as if he were present.
Examples of Apostrophe:
-Come back to me, dear
Cleopatra, in the pride of thy beauty.
-O Death, the poor man’s
friend and the best.
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