Figures Of Speech - First English Grade

Understatement: Definition, Meaning, and Examples

Some sentences sound small on purpose. Imagine a town loses electricity for an entire week, and someone says, “That was […]

Some topics are easier to talk about when we use softer words. Instead of saying someone died, people often say

Apostrophe can be confusing because the word also refers to a punctuation mark. But in figures of speech, apostrophe has

Zeugma is a figure of speech that makes one word do double duty in a sentence. It connects two ideas

Sometimes, a sentence says less than it means. When someone says “not bad,” they may actually mean something is good.

A good antimetabole often sounds like a sentence folding back on itself. It repeats the same key words, but changes

Some lines are memorable not because they use difficult words, but because they are carefully balanced. That is one reason

Synecdoche is a literary device where you refer to something by using a part of it or, in some cases, the

Epiphora, also called epistrophe, is a figure of speech where the same word or phrase is repeated at the end

Antithesis is a literary device that brings two opposite ideas together so the contrast feels clear and immediate. You notice

Anaphora is a figure of speech where the same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of sentences or

Metonymy is a way of referring to something by using a word that is closely connected to it. Instead of