![]() “What a piece of work man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties! In action, like an angel!”."Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! No, It's a plane! It's Superman!".I came out from the pot, to the frying pan, now I'm in the fire!.It aims at building excitement gradually. This is the arrangement in which words, phrases, clauses or ideas are arranged in order of increasing importance. Here an affirmative is conveyed by negation of the opposite. Silence is sometimes more eloquent than words.Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.This is a brief pointed saying which couples words that contradict each other to prove a point. Betty butter has some butter but she said "this butter is bitter if I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter, bitter than the better butter".Four fabulous fish and flowers filled Fayol's farm.Kindly keep the kettle clean for the king.Her step-father put her in a family way.Īlliteration is a figure of speech in which two consecutive words that begins with the same consonant sound are used.This literary device puts unpleasant and disagreeable in an agreeable and pleasant form. ![]() Wow! We have looked at ten commonly used figures of speech already! Let's look at the extra 13 listed.
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