| The use of figure of speech in creative writing | | | | 6. Conceit |
| gives ideas or sentiments a unique perspective. It | | | | It is an elaborate and often extravagant |
| involves a deviation from the more commonly | | | | metaphor. It makes an analogy between totally |
| used form of word order or sentence | | | | dissimilar things. The term originally means concept |
| construction. Writers usually employ such figures | | | | or idea. Conceits were widely used in the |
| of speech embellish their composition. | | | | 17th-century metaphysical poetry. In "A |
| This article is attempted to throw light on various | | | | Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", John Donne uses |
| figures of speech that will help you realize how | | | | it where the image of the joined arms of a pair |
| you can craft your writing to meet your | | | | of compasses is used to demonstrate the |
| expectations. | | | | attachment of a pair of lovers; even when one |
| 1. Simile | | | | makes s move, the two are attached closely |
| It is a specific comparison made by means words | | | | being one. |
| such as "like" or "as" between two kinds of | | | | 7. Euphemism |
| objects. "Reason is to faith as the eye to the | | | | It involves substitution of an inoffensive term or |
| telescope", an example of simile. | | | | phrase for one that has coarse or sordid |
| 2. Metaphor | | | | unpleasant associations, for instance in the use of |
| It uses a word or phrase denoting one kind of | | | | words like "toilet" for "lavatory", and "pass away" |
| idea in place of other word or phrase in order to | | | | for "die". |
| suggest a likeness between the two. | | | | 8. Hyperbole |
| 3. Anticlimax | | | | It is a form of inordinate exaggeration. It means a |
| It involves a series of ideas that suddenly diminish | | | | person or thing is portrayed as being better or |
| in importance at the end of a sentence or | | | | worse than the actual one. For example, "Dr. |
| passage. It is used to bring satirical effect. | | | | Jonathan drank his tea in oceans". |
| 4. Antithesis | | | | 9. Irony |
| It is a juxtaposition of two words, phrases, | | | | It is humorous or lightly sarcastic mode of speech. |
| clauses, or sentences contrasted in meaning to | | | | Words are used here to convey a meaning |
| offer emphasis to contrasting ideas. "To err is | | | | contrary to their literal meaning. |
| human, to forgive divine", is a fine example of | | | | 10. Personification |
| antithesis. | | | | It involves representation of inanimate or abstract |
| 5. Climax | | | | ideas as living beings. The sentence, "Necessity is |
| It is an arrangement of words, clauses, or | | | | the mother of invention" can help you make out |
| sentences in the order of their significance. The | | | | this idea better. |
| least powerful comes first and the others. "It is | | | | The close study of these figures of speech will |
| an outrage to bind a Roman citizen; it is a crime | | | | help you understand the sense of crafting your |
| to scourge him; it is almost parricide to kill him; but | | | | ideas and imagination in creating fine piece of |
| to crucify him-what shall I say of this?" This | | | | literature, poetry or other mode of writing. |
| particular example rightly tells what climax means. | | | | |