Title: Figures of Speech: Figurative language - Literary English
Headings: Figures of Speech: Figurative language
Figures of Speech: Figurative language
Figurative Language in English Literature
(Commonly Used Figures of Speech)
Table of Contents
What is figurative language?
Figures of speech vs Imagery
Commonly Used Figures of Speech: Types
Simile
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Personification
Irony
Idioms
A hot potato
A piece of cake
Onomatopoeia
Synecdoche
Metonymy
Alliteration
Assonance
Apostrophe
Pun
Allusion
Symbolism
Epigram
Background to Literature
Oedipus The King
Othello
Pride and Prejudice
Prologue to Canterbury Tales
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Content: The definition of figurative language contrasts with literal language, which includes only the “surface” or dictionary meanings of used words. Figurative language is usually context based language and requires the listener or reader to recognize some extra nuances, context, allusions, etc. in order to understand the second meaning. However, figurative language is commonly used by native speakers they can understand it very easily. Figurative language is language that uses figures of speech like simile, metaphor, personification. Figurative language is a language that carries its meaning in its hidden background and reader relies on context to understand the meaning of figurative language. The major function of figurative language is to convey the writer’s message to the readers in comprehensible way. Figures of speech vs Imagery
Some writers consider imagery as is a type of figurative language but this in not so. Imagery is a use of vivid and descriptive language to please the reader’s senses and commonly used to depict places, things, and emotions in such a way that it looks more appealing to the readers sense. William Wordsworth and ST Coleridge were best poets who depict the nature in a beautiful way to portrait the beauty of nature.