My Homework

1• What is figure of speech?
The use of words or phrase to achieve a rhetorical meaning from the original meaning or simple meaning of that word.

2• Mention at least 7 examples of speech and explain 3 of them.
Examples:
•Apostrophe
•Euphemism
•Hyperbole
•Alliteration
•Irony
•Metaphor
•Assonance

Explain 3:
Metaphor: A comparison between more than one unlike things that have important things in common.
Assonance: The similarities between sounds of vowels in words. It is just the opposite of the original word.
Irony: A contradicted statement. A figure of speech in which the literal meaning of the word is more or less the opposite of what the speaker intends.

3• Pun is a form of word play that act multiple meanings.

@benson6, please my entry.