figurative language and punctuation

Introduction

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE AND PUNCTUAUTION

What is punctaution for?? What is figuartive language for?? right now you may be asking yourself what are these two things for?? I think the same way.

 Figurative language is the use of words in an unusual or imaginative manner. Often figurative language involves the use of a metaphor, a simile, personification, hyperbole, idiom, a euphemism, and pun. However, as the term figurative language also covers unusual or imaginative word constructions (and not just word meanings), it also includes alliteration, assonance, consonance, and onomatopoeia.

 You use punctuation marks to structure and organise your writing. The most common of these are the period (or full stop in British English), the comma, the exclamation mark, the question mark, the colon and semi-colon, the quote, the apostrophe, the hyphen and dash, and parentheses and brackets. Capital letters are also used to help us organise meaning and to structure the sense of our writing.FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

  • Onomatopoeia: Imitation of a sound made by or associated with what it is referring to, For example: Cuckoo, Boom.

 

  • Oxymoron: A figure of speech in which a pair of opposite terms is used together for emphasis, For example: Organized Chaos, Same Difference.

 

  • Paradox: A statement or proposition, which is self-contradictory, unreasonable or illogical, For example: This statement is a lie. Paradoxes have serious implication in the world because they make statements that often sum up the main ideas of the work. It sums up the totality of the work in one statement.

 

  • Hyperbole: A figure of speech which uses an extravagant or exaggerated statement to express strong feelings, For example: They had been walking so long John thought he might drink the entire lake when they came upon it.

  • Extended Metaphor: A metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences, For example: Suzie is a beautiful young flowering girl. Her cheeks are flush with the spring of life. She has the fragrance of youth around her.

  • Allusion: Reference to a famous character or event, For Example: Like Hercules, he is so strong.

  • Parentheses: A Parenthesis is a word or a phrase put into a sentence to give it more information. Parentheses sometimes in italic, (Brackets), dash and ‘inverted commas’ around it. Parentheses are used to:Explain what a difficult word is, Show someone’s thoughts, Add extra information to help the reader And emphasis a point, For example:The trainers (red and blue nike air) were very expensive.
  • Hyphen: Hyphens are used to link two words and to make the meaning of a sentence, For example: ice-cream, topsy-turvy

PUNCTUATION

  • Colons (:)
  • Semi-colons (;)
  • Comma (,)
  • Full Stop (.)
  • Exclamation Mark (!)
  • Question Mark (?)
  • Brackets ()
  • Inverted Commas (‘’)
  • Dash (-)

 

  • The comma is the weakest mark; than comes the semi-colon; the colon is stronger than the semi-colon but weaker than the full stop.

 

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Weakest

 

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  • Fan boys:  For

                              And

                               Nor

                               Or

                               Yet

                              So

Joining words, phrases and clauses with coordinators

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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