Figurative Language

Methapor
=> The substitution of one idea or object with another, used to assist expression or understanding.
Example : My class is a hell.

Personification
=> When you make a thing or an animal do something only humans can do.
Example : The sea says something to me.

Metonymy
=> The rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, such as describing someone's clothing to characterize the individual.
Example : Lend me your ears.

Paradoks
=> A statement that appears to contradict itself.
Example : Green is gold.

Overstatement/Hyperbole
=> An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect.
Example : Everything that I have in the world.

Understatement
=> A figure of speech in which deliberately makes a situation seem less important or less serious than it.
Example : They go calmly about their task about sacrificing without any excitement.

Irony
=> The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning.
Example: Your written is really beautiful therefore I can’t read it.

Allusion
=> A figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.
Example : Like the prodigal son, he returned to his home town and was welcomed by all who knew him.