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How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by TheWritingHub(m): 11:58am On Dec 15, 2018 |
In the write-up below, I decided to play with figures of speech. In it, are different figures of speech (FOG). There are: antithesis, synecdoche, metaphor, metonym, oxymoron, metalepsis, personification, polysemy and homonym. So can you point these FOGs out from the write-up? Oya, give it a try. .... Ukaay: Is there anything bigger than Michael's toad eyes? Ellikot: Such eyes would be more conspicuous than Lai Mohammed's lies. Ukaay: You need to lie flatly not to see such. Ellikot: We know it's possible to have eyes and be blind. Ukaay: Like having a heart, yet dead. Ellikot: Even with such eyes, he still gets hurt from kicking the bucket. Ukaay: He had big eyes and cannot see: yet what we see as the little Sun can see. .. 22 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by AryEmber(f): 8:47pm On Dec 15, 2018 |
Lemme try. Micheal's told eye is oxymoron. Little sun can see, personification.... that's all I can guess on 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by MvpSplendor: 8:59pm On Dec 15, 2018 |
With all the wahalla person for dey face for this Naija, u still have time to call me to check FOG? Figure of Speech ko, Food of Goats ni 171 Likes 8 Shares |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Posimii(f): 9:00pm On Dec 15, 2018 |
Michael's toad eye is metaphor 14 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by TheWritingHub(m): 12:18am On Dec 16, 2018 |
AryEmber: You got the personification right. But "Michael's toad eyes" is not an oxymoron. � 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by TheWritingHub(m): 12:19am On Dec 16, 2018 |
MvpSplendor: Lol What to do na? It's a way to relax ni 10 Likes |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by TheWritingHub(m): 12:20am On Dec 16, 2018 |
Posimii:That's correct. Can you try out any other one? 1 Like |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Sweetheart666(f): 7:50am On Dec 16, 2018 |
TheWritingHub:1. Metaphor 2.homonym 3.metalepsis 4.oxymoron 5.simile 6.paradox 7.personification Don't ask how I knew them,I was the best literature student of my set and I currently teach literature. 23 Likes 1 Share |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by TheWritingHub(m): 9:24am On Dec 16, 2018 |
Sweetheart666: Lol,.. But you only got 1 and 7 correctly. 19 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by AryEmber(f): 9:24am On Dec 16, 2018 |
TheWritingHub:Ofcourse it's not oxymoron, what was I thinking? It should be metaphor. He has big eyes but cannot see..... hmm, Paradox? |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by TheWritingHub(m): 9:32am On Dec 16, 2018 |
AryEmber: �� Maybe you were thinking about your better half. � |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by ekene101: 12:04pm On Dec 16, 2018 |
TheWritingHub:she is correct somehow though But 2 might be wrong though 4 might be right,have eyes and be blind,oxymoron places two opposite words together to form a sharp contrast,I stand to be corrected. 5. Can be simile and oxymoron though,depending on the context one views it. 6.euphemism 2 Likes |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by TheWritingHub(m): 12:29pm On Dec 16, 2018 |
ekene101: She's right on 4, for the fact that one sentence can employ more than one figure of speech. 5 is not a similie. The presence of like in the sentence doesn't make it one. It can be an oxymoron, but only if the original figure of speech used is gotten. So it's not necessarily an oxymoron. 6 looks like an euphemism, but it's essentially another figure of speech that employed euphemism to achieve it's aim. |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Posimii(f): 1:02pm On Dec 16, 2018 |
Lie Muhammed lies shd be homonym 1 Like |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Nobody: 7:23pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
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Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by ClearFlair: 7:23pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
TheWritingHub: Ellikot: Such eyes would be more conspicuous than Atiku's lies. Your write-up is more realistic now. "...as corrupt as an Atiku." What figure of speech is that? 1 Like |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by martineverest(m): 7:23pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
lie Mohammed.... homonym toad's eyes...... metaphor little sun can see... personification eyes and be blind.....this is clearly para6and not oxymoron heart but dead....... antithesis this op needs to learn the difference between paradox and oxymoron.....there is nothing like oxymoron in above sentences,they are clearly paradox. op also failed to add simile to his list 5 Likes |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by helinues: 7:24pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Ok |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by sinaj(f): 7:25pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Is there anything bigger than Michael's toad eyes? metaphor We know it's possible to have eyes and be blind. Anthithesis Like having a heart, yet dead oxymoron He had big eyes and cannot see: yet what we see as the little Sun can see. antithesis, personification 1 Like |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Nobody: 7:25pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Lmao thanks |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Peterdredd(m): 7:26pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Sirheny007(m): 7:27pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by valdes00(m): 7:28pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
The only figure of speech I can remember is MONEY ... Na 2019 be this -- MY YEAR of LINKUP ...... To all NLers, in 2019, believe that you will get the perfect LINKUP to progress... AMEN 1 Like |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by kikake: 7:28pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
What of: Lai Mohammed's lies in 2014/15 made Nigeria lay prostrate today? |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by anibabes007(m): 7:28pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
1. Oxymoron 2. Hyperbole 3. Hyperbole 4. Simile 5. Personification 6. Metaphor Gbam my score |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by ednut1(m): 7:29pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Be care OP. No remind me of secondary school days |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by DannyJ19(m): 7:29pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Olodo just full this thread. Common figure of speech una no sabi |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by RebirthPhoenix(m): 7:30pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
TheWritingHub: "little sun can see" is not personification, but "pathetic fallacy". |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Timil: 7:30pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
The mod who pushed this to FP, fire burn you there! 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by AreaFada2: 7:30pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
These arts people nor go kee person with laugh. Oxymoron ko, Carbomoron and Nitromoron ni? 5 Likes |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Timil: 7:31pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
DannyJ19:As you kon sabi am, shey e don fetch you money? Your own priority is to learn figure of speech my own priority is to make some cash, different strokes for different folks. 2 Likes |
Re: How Good Are You With Figures Of Speech? Try This Out by Passionate888: 7:31pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
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