FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Figurative Language

Figurative Language

Figurative Language

Figurative language or literary devices are tools used, by the author consciously to provoke emotions, feelings or ideas in the reader. An indispensable part of literary analysis is the identification and study of the use of these resources in a text. Here, are some of the most common: Figurative language is used to create interest among the reader by using unusual comparisons that color the subject matter with an inviting tone. When you want to know something, you tend to compare it with some other common things you have experienced in the past. Similarly, when you want to mention any comparison between different things or happenings, you use words of comparison which is figurative language.

Idiom

Idiom is an expression, word, or phrase that has a figurative meaning comprehended in regard to a common use of that expression that is separate from the literal meaning or definition of the words of which it is made. Idioms are words, phrases, or expressions that cannot be translated literally (Publishing, 2007). For example, the idiom "Get the ball rolling" means "get a process started", but that meaning is not obvious from the individual words.

Analogy

The transposition of the literal sense is a sense sublime and sacred, the mystical interpretation of literary texts. Here, is an example from Dante's Convivio II, I: He the output of the soul from sin, it is made holy and free in his power (Katz, 2008).

Metaphor

The substitution of one term for another with which, it maintains a relationship of analogy. Unlike the comparison, which has two terms, has only a metaphor, as it is a replacement. The term "bond of love" is a metaphor refers to the link between the lover and the object of his affection, and includes the ideas of freedom and loss of hunting, both common in the perception of love.

Simile

Simile is a figure of speech that uses the device of comparison or similarity between terms. Its character is simpler than the metaphor, and therefore, appears more often in both epics in classical and folk poetry. The simile may be reversible (featuring on the two terms in a different order) or graduates (of inferiority, equality or superiority) and associated with other figures (exemplum, allegory, allusion, par excellence, etc.). At present, the repertoires of literary figures make no distinction between a simile and comparison and emphasize the use of elements of relationship ...