FIGURES OF SPEECH

SIMILE

A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Although similes and metaphors are similar, similes explicitly use connecting words (such as like, as, so, than, or various verbs such as resemble), though these specific words are not always necessary. While similes are mainly used in forms of poetry that compare the inanimate and the living, there are also terms in which similes and personifications are used for humorous purposes and comparison.

METAPHOR

A metaphor is a figure of speech that refers, for rhetorical effect, to one thing by mentioning another thing. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas. Antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile are all types of metaphor.

PERSONIFICATION

Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas.

In the arts, personification means representing a non-human thing as if it were human. Personification gives human traits and qualities, such as emotions, desires, sensations, gestures and speech, often by way of a metaphor.

Personification is much used in visual arts. Examples in writing are "the leaves waved in the wind", "the ocean heaved a sigh" or "the Sun smiled at us". In easy language personification is just giving an example of a living being for a non-living thing. "The wind shouted". Obviously the wind cannot shout, only people can. This is what is called personification.

HYPERBOLE

A hyperbole is a type of exaggeration that is used in literature. It is a figure of speech. The opposite of hyperbole is hypobole, which is an understatement.

People exaggerate things because they have strong feelings about something. People may exaggerate to make people listen to what they say. They may do it to emphasize something.

ALLITERATION

Alliteration is when a sentence or phrase has many words that start with the same sound. It is commonly used in advertising, poetry, headlines, and tongue-twisters. Basically the first consonant repeats itself throughout the sentence.

Alliteration is common for poetry. It was used one thousand years ago in Anglo-Saxon poems.

ONOMATOPOEIA

An onomatopoeia (/ˌɒnəˌmætəˈpiːə, -ˌmɑː-/ (About this sound listen),; from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the sound that it describes. As an uncountable noun, onomatopoeia refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeia include animal noises such as "oink", "miaow" (or "meow"), "roar" and "chirp". Onomatopoeia can differ between languages: it conforms to some extent to the broader linguistic system; hence the sound of a clock may be expressed as tick tock in English, dī dā in Mandarin, or katchin katchin in Japanese, or "tik-tik" (टिक-टिक) in Hindi.

Although in the English language the term onomatopoeia means "the imitation of a sound", the compound word onomatopoeia (ὀνοματοποιία) in the Greek language means "making or creating names". For words that imitate sounds, the term ὴχομιμητικό (echomimetico) or echomimetic) is used. ὴχομιμητικό (echomimetico) derives from ὴχώ, meaning echo or sound, and μιμητικό, meaning mimetic or imitation.

CALVARY’S CROSS by: Cronnie Kramer

On Calvary’s Cross; He died for me,

Took away my sins, and set me free.

His suffering can’t ever be told,

Pain, for me, to bring me to God’s fold.

He was mocked; they did spit on Him,

Plucked out His beard; what awful sin!

They gave Him a ‘crown’ of sharp thorns,

A purple robe, His body adorned.

His own people wanted Him to die,

He wasn’t “Messiah”, this they deny!

They hated Him without any cause,

On His way to die, there was applause.

On Calvary’s Cross, He bled and died,

An awful death; He was crucified.

Unmercifully, they Christ did beat,

They drove huge nails in His hands and feet.

We all need to go back to that ‘Cross’,

Without His precious Blood, we’re all lost!

He died there to pay sin’s penalty,

And remove God’s wrath, for eternity.

SIMILE

 Judges 6:5

They came up with their livestock and their tents likeswarms of locusts.

 1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

Matt. 13:44

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.

 Matt. 28:3

His appearance was like lightning and his clothes were white as snow

Matt. 23:27

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean.

Matt. 13:52

Every teacher of the law who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is likethe owner of a house.

 Proverbs 10:26

Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the lazy one to those who send him.

 Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Matt 10:16

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless asdoves.