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# simile personification metaphor metonymy

> We have studied four figures of speech and noticed that, according to the classification of Galperi...

We have studied four figures of speech and noticed that, according to the classification of Galperin, this figures relate to one and the same group: Lexical SDs and Ems, and Kukharenko's: Paradigmatic semasiology units.

**Please, fulfill this task! Let's take a look at how metaphor, simile, metonymy, and personification show up in the following poem. But If you have forgotten how to distinguish a particular figure of speech from the others, you can find definition of each with examples below. **(The poem is from http://www.piclits.com/lessonplans/metaphor_simile_personification.aspx)

### The Writer In her room at the prow of the house Where light breaks and the windows are tossed with linden, My daughter is writing a story. I pause in the stairwell, hearing From her shut door **a commotion of typewriter-keys Like a chain hauled over a gunwale.** Young as she is, **the stuff** **Of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy:** I wish her a lucky **passage.** But now it is she who pauses, As if to reject my thought and its easy figure. A stillness greatens, in which **The whole house seems to be thinking,** And then she is at it again with a bunched clamor Of strokes, and again is silent. I remember the dazed starling Which was trapped in that very room, two years ago; How we stole in, lifted a sash And retreated, not to affright it; And how for a helpless hour, through the crack of the door, We watched the sleek, wild, dark **And iridescent creature Batter against the brilliance, drop like a glove To the hard floor, or the desk-top,** And wait then, humped and bloody, For the wits to try it again; and how are spirits Rose when, suddenly sure, **It lifted off from a chair-back, Beating a smooth course for the right window And clearing the sill of the world.** It is always a matter, my darling, Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish What I wished you before, but harder. —Richard Wilbur

Definitions

**A *metaphor*** is a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things. For example:

"Nature's first green is gold"

The tenor "first green" is compared to the vehicle "gold." The connotations of "gold" are scarce, precious, and valuable. This helps us see that, for the speaker, the first signs of life in spring are scarce, precious, and valuable.

**A *simile* **is an explicit comparison between two unlike things that uses "like," "as," "seems," or "resembles" to make the comparison. For example:

"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oe'r vales and hills."

***Metonymy* **is a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or associated detail of an experience or object is used to represent the whole experience or object. It is always a comparison between whole and part, not two disparate wholes. For example:

"For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon the inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils." —William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

***Personification* **is a figure of speech that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human characteristics. For example:

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness Close bosom friend of the maturing sun;"

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