Vernacular Discourse
  • Figures & Schemes
    • Similarity and Difference >
      • Analogy & Simile
      • Antithesis & Chiasmus
      • Fable & Allegory
      • Metaphor
      • Metonymy & Synecdoche
      • Personification
      • Synesthesia
      • Transferred Epithet
    • Expansion & Contraction >
      • Amplification & Depreciation
      • Apposition & Parenthesis
      • Enargia
      • Euphemism & Dysphemism
      • Hyperbole & Litotes
      • Rhetorical Question
    • Music and Repetition >
      • Alliteration & Assonance
      • Anadiplosis & Hyperbaton
      • Anaphora & Epistrophe
      • Asyndeton & Polysyndeton
      • Parallelism & Isocolon
      • Repetition
      • Short & Simple Words & Styles
      • Tricolon
    • Play and Mischief >
      • Irony & Sarcasm
      • Parodox, Oxymoron & Aphorism
      • Parody & Satire
      • Ridicule
      • Wordplay
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Figures of similarity and difference describe and evaluate through comparisons.

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Analogy & Simile

Analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician - Winston Churchill


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Antithesis & Chiasmus

Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell - John Dryden

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Fable & Allegory

No fables are really about animals - Margaret Atwood

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Metaphor

But the greatest thing by far is to be master of metaphor - Aristotle

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Metonymy & Synecdoche

Grey hairs should be respected - Proverb

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Personification
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world - Louis Pasteur

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Synesthesia

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window panes - T.S. Eliot

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Transferred Epithet

I lit a rather pleased cigarette 
- P.G. Wodehouse

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