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# Metaphor Simile Personification Metonymy

> Figure of speech Metaphor Simile Personification Metonymy Definition A metaphor is defi...

Figure of speech

**Metaphor**

**Simile**

**Personification**

**Metonymy**

Definition

A metaphor is defined as an indirect comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects that typically uses “is a” to join the subjects.

**A **simile** **is where two things are directly compared, and “as” or “like” is usually used to compare.

 

**Personification** is giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas).

Figure of speech where an object’s name is replaced with another name that is closely connected with it.

Formula

A is B

A is like B

 

 

To which group it belongs:
- according to I. R. Galperin

- according to Kukharenko

- according to Screbnev

 
 

Lexical SDs and EMs

 
 

Lexical SDs

Paradigmatic semasiology units

 
 

Lexical SDs and Ems

 
 

Lexical SDs

Paradigmatic semasiology units

 
 

Lexical SDs and Ems

 
 

Lexical SDs

Paradigmatic semasiology units

 
 

Lexical SDs and Ems

 
 

Lexical SDs

Paradigmatic semasiology units

Types

Semantically it split into:
- trite

- genuine

Structurally:
- simple

- prolonged

- mixed

Semantically it split into:
- trite

- genuine

Structurally:
- ordinary

- disguised

Semantically it split into:
- trite

- genuine

 

**- Synecdoche** is a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part.

- **Antonomasia** is the substitution of a title or epithet for a proper name, as in calling a sovereign "Your Majesty.”

Example

![Metaphor Simile Personification Metonymy](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/ganieva92/rMG5FvE5721zo7NVa1q8EWLrlb184t.jpg)

![Metaphor Simile Personification Metonymy](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/ganieva92/86um250d9LUpnM4q6DLz822XMOSbnO.jpg)

![Metaphor Simile Personification Metonymy](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/ganieva92/g034HoWUR62m6QC9pMya19YiZ8u5Bi.jpg)

![Metaphor Simile Personification Metonymy](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/ganieva92/nQMsQ1n8qg7Z76gKdMB4j9ECzu2XSX.jpg)

[http://www.imschools.org/cms/Units/Poetry/personif.htm](http://www.imschools.org/cms/Units/Poetry/personif.htm)

[http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/synecdocheterm.htm](http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/synecdocheterm.htm)

[http://www.dailywritingtips.com](http://www.dailywritingtips.com/)

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