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For the benefit of the intelligent and inquisitive readers a brief
account of the figures of speech in English is submitted below:
1. Allegory: (Greek allos other, agoreuo I speak). It is a device
giving detailed description of one thing under the image of
another.
eg Out of the head I sprung. Amazement seized
All the host of Heaven; back they recoiled afraid
At first and call me Sin, and for a sign
Portentious held me; but familiar grown
I pleased, and with attractive graces won
The most averse. -- Milton, Paradise Lost
2. Allusion: It denotes a passing or casual reference to an inci-
dent of the past either directly or indirectly or by implica-
tion. In Sanskrit literature, mention of allusions from the
Vedic or the classical tradition is very common and popular
both in prose and poetry.
eg Now we clap/Our hands, and cry Eureka, it is clear.
3. Alliteration : It is the commencement of two or more words
or a word group with the same letter or sound.
eg Lying silent and sad in the afternoon shadows and sun-
shine.
4. Anadiplosis: It is repetition in the first part of a clause or sentence
of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or
sentence, usually with a change or extension of meaning.
eg Having power makes it (totalitarian leadership) isolated; iso-
lation breeds insecurity; insecurity breeds suspicion and fear;
suspicion and fear breed violence. - Zibigniew K Brzeninski,
The Permanent Purge, Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism
5. Anaphora (also called epanaphora): It is repetition of word or
words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses or
sentences.
account of the figures of speech in English is submitted below:
1. Allegory: (Greek allos other, agoreuo I speak). It is a device
giving detailed description of one thing under the image of
another.
eg Out of the head I sprung. Amazement seized
All the host of Heaven; back they recoiled afraid
At first and call me Sin, and for a sign
Portentious held me; but familiar grown
I pleased, and with attractive graces won
The most averse. -- Milton, Paradise Lost
2. Allusion: It denotes a passing or casual reference to an inci-
dent of the past either directly or indirectly or by implica-
tion. In Sanskrit literature, mention of allusions from the
Vedic or the classical tradition is very common and popular
both in prose and poetry.
eg Now we clap/Our hands, and cry Eureka, it is clear.
3. Alliteration : It is the commencement of two or more words
or a word group with the same letter or sound.
eg Lying silent and sad in the afternoon shadows and sun-
shine.
4. Anadiplosis: It is repetition in the first part of a clause or sentence
of a prominent word from the latter part of the preceding clause or
sentence, usually with a change or extension of meaning.
eg Having power makes it (totalitarian leadership) isolated; iso-
lation breeds insecurity; insecurity breeds suspicion and fear;
suspicion and fear breed violence. - Zibigniew K Brzeninski,
The Permanent Purge, Politics in Soviet Totalitarianism
5. Anaphora (also called epanaphora): It is repetition of word or
words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses or
sentences.