Figurative Language Mrs比喻性语言夫人. Friedrichs English Class.pptVIP

? ? ? ? ? ? ? Figures of Speech Up until now, we’ve been covering figures of thought, also called, tropes. Now we are going to begin covering figures of speech, also called, schemes. Figures of speech depend upon a change in the standard order or usual syntax of words to create special effects. Figures of speech include apostrophe, rhetorical question, anaphora, antithesis, and chiasmus. New Stuff An apostrophe is an address to a dead or absent person or to an inanimate object or abstract concept. The aim is not, of course, to evoke a response—a logical impossibility—but to elevate the style o