•Apostrophe- Absent or non-existent person or thing addressed as if present and capable of thinking
Blue moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
•Euphemism- substitution of an offensive term
•Example: poor- financially challenged; janitor - sanitation engineer
•Hyperbole- exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
•I walked a thousand miles just for this kiss
•Metaphor- implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something in common
•You are the song playing so softly in my heart
•Metonymy- substitution of word or phase for a thing or person to which it is closely associated
•Malacanang has not given a comment on the hostage crisis. Malacanang - means the government, or the presidency.
We haven't seen any skirts here in the College of Engineering - Skirts - refers to girls.
•Onomatopoeia- formation of words that imitate the sound associated with the objects or actions they refer to
•Bang! Went the pistol
•Clash! Went the window
•Personification- an inanimate object given human qualities or abilities
•“Oreo- milk’s favorite cookie”
•Pun- a play on words. The word may be the same, but have a different meaning, like:
There was once a cross-eyed teacher who couldn't control his pupils.
Pupils - (the part of the eye or students)
Another kind of pun is when you use words that sound alike:
My bestfriend is a mushroom. I like him because he's a fungi.
Fungi - a play on fungi and fun guy
•Simile- two unlike things explicitly compared usually in a phase with “like” or “as”
•Coffee is like friendship; rich’ warm and strong
•Synecdoche- a part is used to represent the whole
•Two heads are better than one. - heads: represent a person (The head is part of a person)
