Example of Literary Figures

All the techniques that the writer uses to achieve more beauty in expression are called literary figures.
We will present some, the most common in literary work are:

Example of literary figures of words:

1. Qualifying
Early tomorrow when the warm yellow sun rises we will go for a walk

2. Epithet
Strong smell
Painful blow
Loud sound

3. Ellipse
Carlos is a builder and Roberto is a data analyst. (it is)
Carmen brings the salad and Betty the dessert. (carry)
When you study you get a good grade, when you don't, you fail. (do you study)

4. Repetition
Mary, light of my soul,
Mary, owner of my life,

5. Periphrasis
gave the last breath of him "= died
"not few" = many
"suffers from nerves" = he is crazy

6. Alliteration
“The king of Constantinople was constantinopolized, he wants to deconstantinopolize,
the deconstantinopolizer who deconstructs it,
he will be a good deconstantinopolizer. "

7. Chorus
My sadness is like a flowering rose bush. If icy wind or burning blast shakes it, the fallen petal turns into sap and turns into pink.
My sadness is like a flowering rose bush.

8. Chorus
Mexican to the war cry
make ready the steel and the bridle,
and let the earth tremble in the center of it
to the loud roar of the cannon

Example of literary figures of significance or tropes:

1. Simile or comparison
Your teeth white as pearl.
His eyes blue like the sky.
Your lips red as ruby ​​of mahjará.
The sand as hot as the sun that greeted her.

2. Metaphor
"Her hair is gold, her forehead fields elysees, her eyebrows arched from the sky, her eyes are sun, her cheeks are pink, her coral lips, her teeth pearls, her neck alabaster, her chest marble, her hands ivory, her whiteness snow."

3 allegory
Your mind is like a burning edge.
The journey flooded my soul.
Her presence was felt within the entire house.
The edge of his sword represented justice.
I am not a gold coin for everyone to love me

4. Hyperbole
Oh, harder than marble to my complaints, and to
lit fire in which I burn more icy
what snow, Galatea!

5. Antithesis
If you are snow, why are your flames alive? If you're
call why your inert ice? If you are shadow
Why do you shed light?

6. Paradox
Mr. Engineer, don't worry. There are twenty-seven ways to do this work and only one leads to a disastrous result. They have already ruled 26.

7. Prosopopoeia
The lighthouse will tell us where to walk.
The moon sings its pain.
The wind is afraid and screams.
The pain slowly leaves me.
The pen says what I think

8. Personification
My flag screams freedom from the rooftops.
The opossum sells candy on the street.
The raccoon works at the supermarket.
My watch is in the hospital for heart failure.
The rabbit went on a trip and arrives until Saturday.

9. Definition
What is life? A frenzy.
What is life? An illusion.

10. Description
The horses were strong!
The horses were agile!

Here is the complete list with their definitions and examples:

By word:

• Example of Qualifying
• Example of Epithet
• Example of Ellipse
• Example of Repetition
• Example of Periphrasis
• Example of Alliteration
• Example of Chorus
• Example of Chorus

Of significance or tropes:

• Example of Simile or comparison
• Example of Metaphor
• Example of Allegory
• Example of Hyperbole
• Example of Antithesis
• Example of Paradox
• Example of Prosopopoeia
• Example of Personification
• Example of Definition
• Example of Description