Do you know these
figures of speech ?
Litote (Understatement)
Litotes is a form of understatement that uses a negative to express a positive idea, often for emphasis or irony.
It is “the art of saying less to suggest more.”
Example :
"No man ever followed his genius until it misled him." (Thoreau)
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Synecdoche
Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used to refer to the whole, or the whole is used to refer to a part.
It can also involve the species for the genus, the material for the object, or the concrete for the abstract.
Examples :
"a pair of hands" for "a worker",
"the law" for "a police officer"
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Prosopopoeia
Prosopopoeia is a figure of speech in which an absent, imaginary, or dead person — or even an inanimate object — is represented as speaking.
It is related to personification, although giving speech to something does not turn it into a person.
Example :
I am the pipe of an author.
(Charles Baudelaire)
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