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given the following terms define them and provide your own example.
1.Figure of speech
2.Simile
3.Personification
4.Allusion
5.Oxymoron​


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Figure of Speech

⇒ are expressions with meanings that cannot be interpreted in a literal or ordinary manner.

Examples:

  • Metaphor
  • Alliteration

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Simile

⇒ is a figure of speech that indirectly compares two different things by employing the words “like”, “as”, or “than”.

Examples:

  • The trees are like canopy protecting the road.
  • That knife is as sharp as razor.

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Personification

⇒ is a figure of speech that occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.

Examples:

  • The wind howled in the night
  • My alarm clock yells at me to get out of bed every morning.

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Allusion

⇒ an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly.

Examples:

  • Her smile is like kryptonite to me.
  • She felt like she had a golden ticket.

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Oxymoron

⇒ a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Examples:  

  • This is another fine mess you have got us into.
  • Suddenly the room filled with a deafening silence.

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