Types of Figurative Speech

Education English | Types of Figures of Speech | There are many kinds of figures of speech that are usually used in the sentence. According to Wren and Martin (1979:489), figures of speech are organized into four different categories; the first is resemblance, including Simile, metaphor, personification and apostrophe. The second is contrast, including antithesis and epigram. The third is association, such as metonymy and synecdoche, and the last is construction including climax and anticlimax. To conclude, the total of figures of speech according to Wren and Martin are 19 figures of speech; simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, hyperbole,
euphemism, antithesis, oxymoron, epigram, irony, pun, metonymy, synecdoche, transferred epithet, litotes, interrogation, exclamatory, climax, and anti-climax. Furthermore, according to Etherton (1973:203), there are 13 figures of speech.They are: simile, metaphors, rhetorical questions, hyperbole, oxymoron, litotes, paronomasia, anastrophe, alliteration, euphemism, syllepsis, aposiopesis, and antithesis.