Essays on Figurative Language

Figures Of Speech Introduction All authors use figures of speech in literature and poetry to emphasize their writing. They link the ideas that go beyond the word’ usual, literal meanings. There are many types of figures of speech The Five common ones are: Simile Metaphor Personification Hyperbole Understatement I am going to talk about them...

Thesis Statement: In this article, Anderson describes a number of in his opinion fallacies which affect students at University and possible solutions to overcome the problems caused by the fallacies. Main Points: Throughout this article the author talks about fallacies which Anderson describes as “A fallacy simply means a logical mistake, a wrong way of...

The holocaust was the World War II slaughter of the European Jews. Somewhere between 1941 and 1945, crosswise German-included Europe, Nazi Germany, and its accomplices efficiently slaughtered about 6,000,000 Jews, around 66% of Europe’s Jewish people. In the memoir night, Eliezer Wiesel recalls his encounters during the time he was detained in inhumane imprisonments. Expressed...

A metaphor is “a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable” (“Metaphor”). Songs tend to use figurative language to engage the listeners in a more creative note, drawing their attention to not only the lyrics, but the meaning behind...

From a philosophical point of view, it is on record that fallacies are mistaken and misleading beliefs that are anchored on unsound arguments. To this extent, fallacies are derivatives of the type of reasoning that is incorrect logically and as such, the validity of such arguments becomes highly compromised. The effect of fallacies is that...

Flaubert is the great master of ironic contemplation. The irony is a fundamental literary device of his novel, Madame Bovary. It uses for the intention of heightening his meaning and directing the reader’s attention to his main themes. Irony has three distinct categories including situational, dramatic and verbal irony. The first two of these ironies...

Allegory: First use of the word ‘allegory ‘in English was in 1382, the origin of this word is taken from Latin word ‘allegoria’, the latinisation of the Greek ἀλληγορία (allegoría), ‘veiled language, figurative’ (Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott). Allegory is considered as a literary device; allegory is a figure of speech called “metaphor” in which...

Plato’s cave allegory is a dialogue about perception and people rejecting facts due to ignorance. To demonstrate it, there exists a cave with people bound and tied in such a way that they are able to look only in one direction, towards a wall in front of them. They have been imprisoned since childhood and...

Plato’s cave allegory is a dialogue about perception and people rejecting reality due to ignorance. To demonstrate it, there exists a cave with people bound and tied in such a way that they are able to look only in one direction, towards a wall in front of them. They have been imprisoned since childhood and...