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Munden | 10:28 Wed 18th Aug 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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Which figures of speech can be defined as follows? 1 A comparison which asserts the resemblance of one thing to another in one of its aspects. 2 One word put for another related to it, as effect for cause, or an author for his works 3 An epithet usually attached to one kind of object which is analogically attached to another 4 A figure by which a whole is put for a part or a part for the whole.
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Number 1 sounds like a simile to me, not really a figure of speech though.
I believe number 4 is synecdoche.
2 might be metonymy
3 is probably a 'transferred epithet'. It is if you mean something along the lines of: "The prisoner was held in the condemned cell"...after all, it was the prisoner who was condemned and not the cell.
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Thanks all, but I wondered about the difference between a simile, metaphor and analogy, for number 1. Anyone throw any light on this please?
simile usually has the words 'like' or 'as' in the sentence ie, I wandered lonely as a cloud' a metaphor still compares the subject to something it is not but without 'like' or 'as' - it presumes you know that already - that's what I remember from long ago English Lit A level!

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