Dilyara Urumbaeva

Periphrasis - is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is indirectly expressed through several or many words. From Greek origin 'peri' - about, around + 'phrasis' - phrase. To use more words then necessary when explaining something. F.e.: Grab that elongated yellow fruit (Grab that banana); to disgrace of fortune - bad luck. This is a device by which a longer phrase is used instead of a shorter and plainer one, which is used in literary descriptions for greater expressiveness: The little boy has been deprived of what can never be replaced (Dickens) (=deprived of his mother). Hyperbole - is an exaggeration of dimensions of other properties of the object. It is an expression of emotional evaluation of reality by a speaker. F.e.: A thousand pardons; He was frightened to de…

Hi, everybody. At last I checked))) I want to begin my speech with famous quote about metaphor: "Books are the mirrors of the soul"(Virgina Woolf). As for me, my quote during my life: "Life is a dance". And simile by method of substitution: " Life is like a dance". Metaphor is transference of names based on the associated likeness between two subjects. From the Greek, " carry over". For example: silver star; the sun-the ball; love is a jewel, or a rose, or a butterfly. A metaphor is a way of communicating an idea using the image of one thing to describe another. A metaphor can be useful in helping people to express the intensity of an experience or their emotions about something. When someone uses these images in their descriptions, they are "speaking metaphorically'' rather than ''litera…