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Language Devices: Irony Onomatopoeia Imagery

This document discusses several language devices: 1) A simile makes a direct comparison between two things using words like "like" or "as". 2) Contrast identifies differences between two subjects through opposition to emphasize their differences. 3) A metaphor makes an implied comparison between two unrelated things that share some characteristics.

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Language Devices: Irony Onomatopoeia Imagery

This document discusses several language devices: 1) A simile makes a direct comparison between two things using words like "like" or "as". 2) Contrast identifies differences between two subjects through opposition to emphasize their differences. 3) A metaphor makes an implied comparison between two unrelated things that share some characteristics.

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Language devices

Metaphor
Contrast
Simile Metaphor is a figure of speech that
Contrast is a rhetorical makes an implicit, implied, or
A simile is a figure of hidden comparison between two
device through which
speech that makes things that are unrelated, but which
writers identify differences
a comparison, showing share some common
between two subjects,
similarities between two characteristics. In other words, a
places, persons, things, or
different things. Unlike resemblance of two contradictory
ideas. Simply, it is a type
a metaphor, a simile or different objects is made based
of opposition between two
draws resemblance with on a single or some common
objects, highlighted to
the help of the words characteristics.
emphasize their
“like” or “as.” Therefore,
differences.
it is a direct comparison.

Onomatopoeia Imagery
Irony
Onomatopoeia, pronounced on-uh- Imagery means to
Irony is a figure of speech in which words are mat-uh–pee–uh, is defined as a word
used in such a way that their intended which imitates the natural sounds of a use figurative
meaning is different from the actual meaning thing. It creates a sound effect that language to represent
of the words. It may also be a situation that mimics the thing described, making objects, actions, and
ends up in quite a different way than what is the description more expressive and
generally anticipated. In simple words, it is a ideas in such a way that it
interesting.
difference between appearance and reality. appeals to our physical
senses.

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