FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Refers to the imaginative language
which is not direct but in-direct differs from normal language. It is
characterised by using figures of speech.
FIGURES OF SPEECH
(a) Simile; is the comparison of two unlike entities by using conjunction/words like such as, as…..as, as, so that. Eg, life is like a dream.
(b) Metaphor; is a comparison of unlike entities person or situation without using words includes such as like, as…..as, resemble. Eg, life is a dream. He is a snake.
(c) Personification; refers to an explanation in which non-human beings or creatures are given human characteristics or behaviours. Eg, the rain ate all the tree in our village.
(d) Apostrophe; is an explanation in which a person addresses an absent or dead human being or non-human creature as if they can hear or replay. Eg, Amanda my dear wife,
the dead never come back home,
but at least once in life,
they visit us in dream.
(e) Symbolism; is an explanation or words where an entities in a work of art refers to the different entities or situation.
Eg, in a poem YOUR PAIN by Armand (G)
Blood _
symbolises _ Sacrifice
Scars _ symbolises _
Oppression
(f) Hyperbole (overstatement) or Exaggeration; is the literary technique which involve saying something which is more serious than it actual is.
Eg, she gave me five millions of kisses. You possess my heart.
(g) Litotes (understatement); is a literary that involve saying something less serious than it actual is. Eg, I have ten millions for my own lunch today.
Don’t fear, only five people were killed.
(h) Irony; is a literary technique in which one thing mean the opposite of what is said or what is happen is quite different from what is expected.
Eg, Juma is intelligent boy but he score 0 marks of a hundred.
(i) Sarcasm; is a statement given for a purpose of hunting or humiliate someone to make him/her unhappy or angry. Eg, Guy your hair is well combed and looks good.
(j) Rhetorical Question; is a statement in form of question which needs no replay asked.
